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1 yochanan  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:55:47pm

sea kitteh and chips vs fruit cup

2 solomonpanting  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:56:35pm

Iran opposition says protesters 'tortured'

If the US isn't involved, no one cares.
I bet it wasn't panties on the head, either.

3 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:56:51pm

Dig that fresh open thread smell!

/Solid!

4 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:57:44pm

Mmh, what a breath of fresh air.

5 yochanan  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:58:19pm

can i have both sea kitteh & chips & fruit cup

6 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:59:16pm

re: #4 callahan23

Mmh, what a breath of fresh air.

callahan23 ... have another hit ...

7 Shug  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:59:37pm

re: #2 solomonpanting

Iran opposition says protesters 'tortured'

If the US isn't involved, no one cares.
I bet it wasn't panties on the head, either.


at least not clean panties

8 The Other Les  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:00:07pm

re: #2 solomonpanting

Iran opposition says protesters 'tortured'

If the US isn't involved, no one cares.
I bet it wasn't panties on the head, either.

Or the comfy chair.

9 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:02:20pm

re: #6 JacksonTn

callahan23 ... have another hit ...
[Video]

Hypnotic.

10 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:02:39pm

re: #2 solomonpanting

Iran opposition says protesters 'tortured'

If the US isn't involved, no one cares.
I bet it wasn't panties on the head, either.

Lots of wood shampoos and assorted painful bits, I'll bet...

11 The Other Les  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:03:14pm

re: #7 Shug

at least not clean panties

From Firesign Theater's Eat Or Be Eaten:

American Diplomat: I'm here to take over the American Embassy.

Customs Officer: Oh, that's lots of fun! My club and I do it every week. But you lot's of men with underwear on their heads and guns!

12 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:04:03pm
... bowered sun-drenched pathways ...

OH NO YOU DON'T, CHARLES!

bower: n 1. a place enclosed by overhanging boughs of trees or by vines on a trellis; arbor

"sun-drenched" is FALSE ADVERTISING!

/or maybe that's the shadow of a pipe wrench I see

13 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:05:03pm

Fiddlesticks. Time for an open and I have to go to dinner. BBL.

14 Mad Al-Jaffee  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:06:56pm

re: #13 doppelganglander

Upding because people don't say "fiddlesticks" enough.

15 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:07:47pm

re: #2 solomonpanting

Iran opposition says protesters 'tortured'

If the US isn't involved, no one cares.
I bet it wasn't panties on the head, either.

And IIRC, once upon a time, these theocrats were the ones complaining about the Shah's secret service.

/Evin Prison -- merely operating under new ownership

16 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:08:27pm

The last time I went sauntering happily down bowered sun-drenched pathways, my paradigm shifted and I threw my back out. Could not walk for a week.

No thanks.

17 solomonpanting  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:09:30pm

re: #15 pre-Boomer Marine brat

And IIRC, once upon a time, these theocrats were the ones complaining about the Shah's secret service.

/Evin Prison -- merely operating under new ownership

They complained only because they weren't wielding the power.

18 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:10:12pm

re: #2 solomonpanting

According to Slate magazine, Obama's embrace of the mullah's is all Bush's fault... [Link: www.slate.com...]

19 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:10:20pm

Aaah, burgers for dinner!

20 The Other Les  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:11:14pm

re: #18 MrPaulRevere

According to Slate magazine, Obama's embrace of the mullah's is all Bush's fault... [Link: www.slate.com...]

I suppose they'll also blame the setting of the sun on Bush too.

21 Scion9  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:11:54pm

re: #15 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I think the ones complaining the hardest were student and academia liberals and Communists, who promptly found themselves in the Ayatollah's prisons before they had an opportunity to actually complain about his 'secret service' like they had his predecessors.

22 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:12:36pm
23 solomonpanting  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:13:29pm

re: #18 MrPaulRevere

I concur with this:

Blathering, peripheral Joe Biden is the excessive response to the silent, all-powerful Dick Cheney.

24 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:13:42pm

re: #19 Alouette

Aaah, burgers for dinner!


Ham
Cheese or
Image: SandyBerger.jpg
andy?

25 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:15:00pm

re: #24 sattv4u2

Ham
Cheese or
[Link: upload.wikimedia.org...]
andy?

(((that should have read))

Or Sandy

PIMF

26 The Other Les  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:15:02pm

Sure... someone does an Obama as the Joker poster and it gets noticed.

I cook up an Obama as an elevated deity poster and no one gets it.

But then I suppose it would help if I actually print up a few copies and put them up.

27 OldLineTexan  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:15:12pm

re: #18 MrPaulRevere

According to Slate magazine, Obama's embrace of the mullah's is all Bush's fault... [Link: www.slate.com...]

i am glad to see they are still 'with the program'

28 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:15:59pm

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

If you were a leftist into all that "Eat the Rich" rhetoric, it would be burghers for dinner.

And in true proletarian spirit, they'd be going Dutch.

29 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:17:19pm

This could get interesting: JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 -- Israeli police Sunday recommended that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment and obstruction of justice. [Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

30 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:18:07pm

re: #18 MrPaulRevere

According to Slate magazine, Obama's embrace of the mullah's is all Bush's fault... [Link: www.slate.com...]

That, sir, was a truly impressive demonstration of moonbat idiocy. I tip my cap to you.

31 yochanan  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:19:48pm

re: #15 pre-Boomer Marine brat

after the rev. against the shah the islamists liquidated the leftists who were there allies during the revolution killing tens of thousands.

32 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:19:50pm

re: #29 MrPaulRevere

This could get interesting: JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 -- Israeli police Sunday recommended that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment and obstruction of justice. [Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

My my my, does Israel have sister city arrangements with Chicago and Newark?

33 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:20:41pm
34 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:21:15pm

re: #22 buzzsawmonkey

So this one time, when I was just a squatch, Dad brought home some venison that one of his friends gave him. Being just a squatch I had no idea what it was. Mom cooked it up, it smelled delicious. I ask him again while we're eating it, and he tells me it's what Mommy calls him, to which I scream Spit it out, Mom, it's an asshole !

35 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:22:25pm

Obama's buddy Hugo Chavez orders the closing of 34 radio stations, in order to progress toward a government monopoly on radio broadcasting.

36 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:23:17pm

re: #26 The Other Les

Sure... someone does an Obama as the Joker poster and it gets noticed.


"Makes you wonder who's behind this."

Uh, hello, BushMan!

37 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:23:30pm

re: #31 yochanan

after the rev. against the shah the islamists liquidated the leftists who were there allies during the revolution killing tens of thousands.

And now the Islamist Revolution is eating its own.

38 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:23:41pm

re: #29 MrPaulRevere

This could get interesting: JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 -- Israeli police Sunday recommended that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment and obstruction of justice. [Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

I'd say that Mr. Lieberman might be well and truly f**ked...

39 Mad Al-Jaffee  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:23:47pm

re: #26 The Other Les

Sure... someone does an Obama as the Joker poster and it gets noticed.

I cook up an Obama as an elevated deity poster and no one gets it.

But then I suppose it would help if I actually print up a few copies and put them up.

That's because Obama as the Joker (or any criticism of Him) is RACIST!!!

40 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:24:30pm

re: #37 pre-Boomer Marine brat

And now the Islamist Revolution is eating its own.

Preview was my friend --notice the IslamIST

41 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:24:42pm

re: #35 Last Mohican

That BNP knuckle dragger featured below has a blog post supporting Chavez's move...

42 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:24:42pm

re: #39 Mad Al-Jaffee

That's because Obama as the Joker (or any criticism of Him) is RACIST!!!

MaJ ... and you are racists for pointing that out ...

/

43 The Other Les  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:25:17pm

re: #39 Mad Al-Jaffee

Remember the sarcasm slash!

44 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:26:02pm

re: #38 talon_262

If Lieberman is indicted he MUST resign. Interesting indeed.

45 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:26:18pm
46 Mad Al-Jaffee  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:27:13pm

re: #43 The Other Les

Remember the sarcasm slash!

Who says I was being sarcastic?

/

47 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:28:21pm

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

IslaMist™--the aroma of submission!

Taqiyya bottle home today and sharia little with your friends!

You are certainly a prodigious fount of poetry and jocularity, Buzz...

48 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:28:21pm

re: #35 Last Mohican

Obama's buddy Hugo Chavez orders the closing of 34 radio stations, in order to progress toward a government monopoly on radio broadcasting.

We haven't closed any radio stations, we've applied the law," Chavez said on state television. "We've recovered a bunch of stations that were outside the law, that now belong to the people and not the bourgeoisie."

Yay, all the people can speak now, they own the stations.
*Spit

49 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:28:30pm

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

IslaMist™--the aroma of submission!

Taqiyya bottle home today and sharia little with your friends!

ROFLMAO!
*bowing before the Master* ... :D

50 DEZes  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:29:32pm

re: #49 pre-Boomer Marine brat

ROFLMAO!
*bowing before the Master* ... :D

That deserves more updings.

51 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:30:04pm
52 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:30:50pm

re: #50 DEZes

That deserves more updings.

Indeed.
Buzz is quite the Qutb this evening!

53 solomonpanting  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:30:57pm

re: #51 buzzsawmonkey

I am on a one-man campaign to reintroduce the wisecrack into American discourse.

Much, much better than plumber's crack.

54 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:31:13pm

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

IslaMist™--the aroma of submission!

Taqiyya bottle home today and sharia little with your friends!

LOL LOL LOL

55 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:31:32pm

re: #48 SasquatchOnSteroids

You gotta love Chavez' use of the term "recover." Maybe Obama will adopt it too. As in "we're gonna recover the Chrysler creditors' money. We're gonna recover folks' pension plans."

56 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:32:26pm

re: #51 buzzsawmonkey

I am on a one-man campaign to reintroduce the wisecrack into American discourse.

Hell ,, I've been at it since the early 70's. If I knew there was money in it I would have trademarked it prior to the InterToobies!

57 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:32:42pm

re: #14 Mad Al-Jaffee

Upding because people don't say "fiddlesticks" enough.

I'm gonna try to work it into my active vocabulary. Does it refer to a bow to play the fiddle or just a run-of-the-mill, oh, nevermind.

58 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:32:45pm

re: #55 Last Mohican

You gotta love Chavez' use of the term "recover." Maybe Obama will adopt it too. As in "we're gonna recover the Chrysler creditors' money. We're gonna recover folks' pension plans."

We're going to recover this economy.
From the people who make it tick.

59 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:33:42pm

re: #51 buzzsawmonkey

I am on a one-man campaign to reintroduce the wisecrack into American discourse.

The Taliban would give you the lashkars you deserve it.

60 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:34:10pm
61 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:34:12pm

re: #16 Racer X

The last time I went sauntering happily down bowered sun-drenched pathways, my paradigm shifted and I threw my back out. Could not walk for a week.

No thanks.

Was it sunny or shady?

62 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:34:18pm

re: #58 SasquatchOnSteroids

We're going to recover this economy.
From the people who make it tick ME SICK.

ftfy

63 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:34:30pm

re: #58 SasquatchOnSteroids

We're going to recover this economy.
From the people who make it tick.

I believe we have stumbled on the reason why congress called it the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ."

64 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:34:49pm

re: #29 MrPaulRevere

This could get interesting: JERUSALEM, Aug. 2 -- Israeli police Sunday recommended that the state indict Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on charges of bribery, fraud, money laundering, witness harassment and obstruction of justice. [Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Maybe he'll get to be Prime Minister, like Olmert and Sharon.

65 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:35:47pm

re: #51 buzzsawmonkey

I am on a one-man campaign to reintroduce the wisecrack into American discourse.

"We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"

/Wayne and Garth mode off ;-P

66 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:35:47pm

re: #60 buzzsawmonkey

If there's money in it, I have yet to see it.

But the America of "sez you" is a much more fun place to be than the America of dour PC.

I can only pay in dings, one at a time.

67 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:35:52pm

Too cool! Was just asked by my Minister of Music and Pastor to sing a very special song in the fall, kicking off the new year...

This song...

YAY! GONNA BE FUN!

68 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:37:21pm

re: #51 buzzsawmonkey

I am on a one-man campaign to reintroduce the wisecrack into American discourse.

We need a wisecrack on the Supreme Court to represent the Asshole-Americans

69 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:38:50pm

re: #67 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Too cool! Was just asked by my Minister of Music and Pastor to sing a very special song in the fall, kicking off the new year...

This song...

YAY! GONNA BE FUN!

Thats the good news ,,, The BAD news is you have to wear this

Image: 32.jpg

70 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:39:18pm

Buzz at the Supreme Court.

Lawyer : Your Honor.

Buzz : I am ?

71 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:39:30pm

re: #68 Alouette

We need a wisecrack on the Supreme Court to represent the Asshole-Americans

I thought Dear Leader represented Asshole-Americans...

///

72 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:40:57pm

re: #64 Alouette

I can't say I follow domestic Israeli politics much, but what is going on over there? Is the corruption systemic, the laws too restrictive, or a combination of both?

73 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:41:20pm

re: #59 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The Taliban would give you the lashkars you deserve it.

Sorry, everyone -- I know we don't Wana go there.

...

...

/about to find out who's knowledgeable about Pakistan

74 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:42:09pm
75 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:43:26pm

Aaron Neville ... Tell It Like It Is ...

76 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:43:47pm
77 ArmyWife  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:44:03pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Daily Kooks? Seriously? and Armed to the teeth? Hardly. Just another member of the crazy wing.

78 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:44:33pm

re: #73 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Sorry, everyone -- I know we don't Wana go there.

...

...

/about to find out who's knowledgeable about Pakistan

I used High Karachi in high school for my cologne. Needless to say, I didn't get many dates.

79 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:44:40pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Interesting ... though now I'm gonna have trouble eating supper

/ ... :D ... thanks LOADS, Killgore!

80 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:45:47pm

re: #78 SasquatchOnSteroids

I used High Karachi in high school for my cologne. Needless to say, I didn't get many dates.

SoS ... they had the best commercials ...

81 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:46:54pm

re: #77 ArmyWife

That crazy lady had quite a little arsenal with her.

82 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:47:02pm

re: #76 buzzsawmonkey

heh ... very obscure, so I won't Swat you for it.
The city of Wana is Meshud's turf, South Waziristan

83 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:47:28pm

re: #78 SasquatchOnSteroids

I used High Karachi in high school for my cologne. Needless to say, I didn't get many dates.

So you changed to High-Kashmir in order to get a date with a lovely Sasquatchess?
High mountain smells go well to entice the female Sasquaches it is reported.
;-)

84 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:47:41pm

re: #69 sattv4u2

Thats the good news ,,, The BAD news is you have to wear this

[Link: 3.bp.blogspot.com...]

I have to wear a Google Not Found T-shirt?

85 DEZes  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:48:12pm

re: #84 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I have to wear a Google Not Found T-shirt?

Same here.

86 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:48:16pm
87 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:49:26pm

re: #83 callahan23

So you changed to High-Kashmir in order to get a date with a lovely Sasquatchess?
High mountain smells go well to entice the female Sasquaches it is reported.
;-)

I married a French chick. Le Hore.

88 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:49:31pm

re: #78 SasquatchOnSteroids

I used High Karachi in high school for my cologne. Needless to say, I didn't get many dates.

Goat ahead, ... admit who was you Sind with.

89 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:50:09pm

Kash fer klunkers update...
Ford to post 1st monthly sales increase in 2 years

It appears to be working and it's very popular so Republicans predictably leap into action to prevent a possible success...
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Becomes a Republican Target

90 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:50:29pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Check out her MySpace page, its a complete mess, with diagrams of 'FEMA coffins'.

91 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:50:34pm

re: #84 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I have to wear a Google Not Found T-shirt?

Actually... I'd like to have one.

92 ArmyWife  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:50:55pm

re: #81 Killgore Trout

She was crazy all right. And had weapons. But when I think armed to the teeth, I think loads and loads of guns - not 2. That said, one gun with that type is too many. I'm concerned when we start labeling this as "armed to the teeth" it is creating a mindset to make it ok to remove these types of weapons from conservatives who answer they may have, on occasion, listened to Glen Beck. Perhaps a bit paranoid, perhaps a bit smart. Who knows.

93 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:51:42pm

re: #90 MrPaulRevere

No thanks.

94 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:51:53pm

re: #83 callahan23

So you changed to High-Kashmir in order to get a date with a lovely Sasquatchess?
High mountain smells go well to entice the female Sasquaches it is reported.
;-)

callhan .. jmo ... but I like men who just smell like themselves ... I don't like cologne on men ...

95 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:51:55pm

re: #86 buzzsawmonkey

Some people have knowledge of that region up the Wazir. I am not one of them.

For me, it's a long story ... heh.

96 Gella  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:53:23pm

happy Sunday lizards :)

97 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:53:37pm

re: #88 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Goat ahead, ... admit who was you Sind with.

Is Llama bad ?
I'm not sayin' anything happened, but Tequila on an empty stomach will make a creature wake up with strange bedfellows.

98 ArmyWife  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:53:48pm

re: #89 Killgore Trout

KT - the government is creating the demand. They are also building the supply. I have an issue with that.

99 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:54:03pm

I'm back for a bit. I'm surprised and gratified to learn that "fiddlesticks" is gaining traction. I should see if the URL is available.

100 solomonpanting  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:54:31pm

re: #94 JacksonTn

I don't like cologne on men ...

Ja, ja but do you like men in Cologne?

101 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:54:52pm

re: #90 MrPaulRevere

I even sat through the Glenn Beck videos she posted and read her ramblings. The lady is just insane and potentially pretty dangerous. Luckily these loons aren't coordinating with each other to launch attacks. It would only take 3-4 loons to start working together and something really bad could happen.

102 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:55:30pm

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Gee ,, lets see

GIVE AWAY MONEY

(in my day, we used to call it BUYING VOTES)

103 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:55:42pm

re: #98 ArmyWife

Yep, and the money is also borrowed - I have a real problem with that too.

104 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:56:02pm

re: #101 Killgore Trout

Shes also a big Alex Jones fan. The Beck/Jones convergence, if you will.

105 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:56:21pm

re: #103 Dominic Yeso

Yep, and the money is also borrowed BEING PRINTED OUT OF THIN AIR - I have a real problem with that too.

106 Pvt Bin Jammin  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:56:34pm

re: #90 MrPaulRevere

Check out her MySpace page, its a complete mess, with diagrams of 'FEMA coffins'.

OMG, she sounds completely out of it.

107 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:56:38pm

re: #105 sattv4u2

that too.

108 Mich-again  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:57:10pm

How can you not laugh at posts 2 and 3 taken together. Ha.

109 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:57:14pm

re: #90 MrPaulRevere

Check out her MySpace page, its a complete mess, with diagrams of 'FEMA coffins'.

Sure enough. Also, I notice that she is a single mother of three, and that her sign is Aquarius.

You know what we should do? We should introduce her to that guy, you know, the one that Charles banned who was gonna murder his daughter's boyfriend? Isn't he a single dad? They could get together and make their own little Brady Bunker.

110 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:57:22pm

re: #94 JacksonTn

callhan .. jmo ... but I like men who just smell like themselves ... I don't like cologne on men ...

Agreed. Cologne is often literally breath taking.
But deodorant is required. Unless one is to empty a location quickly.

111 ArmyWife  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:58:00pm

re: #109 Last Mohican

OR we can hope she gets the help she needs. Pronto.

112 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:58:04pm

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Kash fer klunkers update...
Ford to post 1st monthly sales increase in 2 years

It appears to be working and it's very popular so Republicans predictably leap into action to prevent a possible success...
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Becomes a Republican Target

So I get taxed to buy you a car? Hmmm.

113 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:59:03pm

re: #104 MrPaulRevere

Shes also a big Alex Jones fan. The Beck/Jones convergence, if you will.

MPR ... I was going thru XM stations on a drive from the farms the other day and Alex Jones was on one of them ... I cannot remember which station it was ... I listened to him for a few minutes and it was the first time I ever heard him ... he is crazy ... I wonder what percentage of the population has even heard him speak ... he is so paranoid about everything ...

114 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:59:03pm

re: #109 Last Mohican

Maybe that wasn't something to post.
/I'm merely wondering, all things considered.

115 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:59:25pm

re: #112 brookly red

So I get taxed to buy you a car? Hmmm.

Yes, isn't it fabulous ?

116 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:59:32pm

re: #112 brookly red

So I get taxed to buy you a car? Hmmm.

I'm sure you'll get a nice thank you note.

117 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:59:43pm

re: #101 Killgore Trout

I even sat through the Glenn Beck videos she posted and read her ramblings. The lady is just insane and potentially pretty dangerous. Luckily these loons aren't coordinating with each other to launch attacks. It would only take 3-4 loons to start working together and something really bad could happen.

Even one loon, acting alone, can cause some serious tragedy. We have plenty of Sudden Jihad stories to prove that.

118 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 4:59:57pm

re: #110 callahan23

Agreed. Cologne is often literally breath taking.
But deodorant is required. Unless one is to empty a location quickly.

callahan23 ... yes but sometimes a sweaty guy is ... um .. sexy ...

119 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:00:02pm

re: #112 brookly red

it goes deeper then that - you are taxed to provide all sorts of favors and items to others .. cars are just the latest.

120 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:00:08pm

re: #112 brookly red

It depends, there are some tax waivers in the program but yes it helps with state revenue as well.

121 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:00:19pm

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Kash fer klunkers update...
Ford to post 1st monthly sales increase in 2 years

It appears to be working and it's very popular so Republicans predictably leap into action to prevent a possible success...
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Becomes a Republican Target

a dildo 'works' too...it's not the same thing tho...C/C is a contrived giveaway...you are subsidizing sellers who in turn subsidize the dealers...if it's stimulation, it's artificial ans severely limited

122 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:00:51pm

re: #121 albusteve

a dildo 'works' too...it's not the same thing tho...C/C is a contrived giveaway...you are subsidizing sellers who in turn subsidize the dealers...if it's stimulation, it's artificial ans severely limited

That's a really...colorful comparison.

123 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:01:36pm

re: #122 doppelganglander

That's a really...colorful comparison.

dop ... I think he is saying it is just another way of jerking yourself off ..

/sorry if that sounds bad ...

124 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:01:54pm

re: #118 JacksonTn

callahan23 ... yes but sometimes a sweaty guy is ... um .. sexy ...

This will now certainly turn into the armpit of all threads.

125 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:02:05pm

re: #113 JacksonTn

Listen to Alex Jones unplugged: [Link: hotair.com...]

126 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:02:44pm

re: #118 JacksonTn

callahan23 ... yes but sometimes a sweaty guy is ... um .. sexy ...

Fresh sweat is also nice on Lizardess'. Only the fresh one.

127 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:03:28pm

re: #120 Killgore Trout

It depends, there are some tax waivers in the program but yes it helps with state revenue as well.

But what if I don't want to work to support others?

128 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:03:35pm

re: #114 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You mean my post, or hers? If mine, I apologize. There's something I find at once terrifying and truly fascinating about the Internet Age: the fact that people have blogs, MySpace pages, etc. where they post deranged, violent rantings right next to the most banal trivial details... their astrological sign, a cute picture that their kid drew in art class, a funny joke they heard at work today.

129 ArmyWife  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:03:51pm

re: #127 brookly red

Then you are a hater, somehow.

130 DEZes  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:00pm

re: #126 callahan23

Fresh sweat is also nice on Lizardess'. Only the fresh one.

Sweaty guys do nothing for me either.
Hows My buddy doing today?

131 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:06pm

FORWARD LOOKING

Once all these 'clunkers" are swapped in and destroyed, what do people with little to no money buy when THEY need a car when THEIR clunker dies?

They can't afford the payments on a new one1
There won't be many (if any) $200-$500 shitboxes available

Will Congress come up with the same type of loan program for cars that demanded that low income, so so credit rating. spotty job history people get home loans?

132 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:37pm

re: #127 brookly red

But what if I don't want to work to support others?

well then your're an unpatriotic extremist

133 Gus  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:39pm

re: #125 MrPaulRevere

Listen to Alex Jones unplugged: [Link: hotair.com...]

Paranoid schizophrenia.

Not only that he's probably sending some borderline paranoid schizophrenics over the edge.

134 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:45pm

re: #123 JacksonTn

dop ... I think he is saying it is just another way of jerking yourself off ..

/sorry if that sounds bad ...

Oh, I got it, and I found it very funny. I probably should have included a LOL.

135 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:49pm

re: #127 brookly red

But what if I don't want to work to support others?

Hey, get with the program, Brookly!

136 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:57pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Glenn Beck really is a piece trash work. He works up all the loons for a month with stories of 'FEMA camps' and then gets on the air one day and says, 'Oh by they way, its not true'.

137 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:04:59pm

re: #127 brookly red

But what if I don't want to work to support others?

BR ... you are not one of those selfish "rich" Americans are you? ... cuz if you are ... you need a good talking to ...

/

138 saberry0530  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:05:39pm

re: #131 sattv4u2

FORWARD LOOKING

Once all these 'clunkers" are swapped in and destroyed, what do people with little to no money buy when THEY need a car when THEIR clunker dies?

They can't afford the payments on a new one1
There won't be many (if any) $200-$500 shitboxes available

Will Congress come up with the same type of loan program for cars that demanded that low income, so so credit rating. spotty job history people get home loans?

I'm waiting for the Repo sale in about 6 months before I go and pick up the wife a new ride. Should be able to get one hell of a deal.

139 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:05:45pm

re: #130 DEZes

Sweaty guys do nothing for me either.
Hows My buddy doing today?

Doin' really fine.
How's the weather on your home-planet?
;-)

140 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:05:51pm

re: #131 sattv4u2

FORWARD LOOKING

Once all these 'clunkers" are swapped in and destroyed, what do people with little to no money buy when THEY need a car when THEIR clunker dies?

They can't afford the payments on a new one1
There won't be many (if any) $200-$500 shitboxes available

Will Congress come up with the same type of loan program for cars that demanded that low income, so so credit rating. spotty job history people get home loans?

Sssshhh, you're going to give them ideas.

141 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:05:52pm

re: #127 brookly red

But what if I don't want to work to support others?

you will assimilate
you will assimilate
you will assimilate
you will assimilate
you will assimilate
you will assimilate

142 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:06:12pm

re: #127 brookly red

But what if I don't want to work to support others?

BR ... oh, and you will never get your "n" back now ...

143 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:06:13pm

re: #129 ArmyWife

Then you are a hater, somehow.

Yes, I guess I am...

144 DEZes  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:06:54pm

re: #139 callahan23

Doin' really fine.
How's the weather on your home-planet?
;-)

Sunny for a change, But the moonbats will be out tonight.

145 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:06:56pm

re: #127 brookly red

Yes, perfect. If you are willing to forgo some things then join the other side and just be a taker. Go in and quit your job tomorrow and sign up for your entitlements.

146 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:07:12pm

re: #131 sattv4u2

FORWARD LOOKING

Once all these 'clunkers" are swapped in and destroyed, what do people with little to no money buy when THEY need a car when THEIR clunker dies?

They can't afford the payments on a new one1
There won't be many (if any) $200-$500 shitboxes available

Will Congress come up with the same type of loan program for cars that demanded that low income, so so credit rating. spotty job history people get home loans?

Poor people deserve new homes and it seems to me some nice new cars as well.

147 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:07:32pm

re: #127 brookly red

Then don't pay your taxes.

148 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:07:37pm

re: #143 brookly red

Yes, I guess I am...

HATE HATE HATE

/"The Player Haters Ball", Chappelle's Show ;-P

149 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:07:38pm

re: #137 JacksonTn

BR ... you are not one of those selfish "rich" Americans are you? ... cuz if you are ... you need a good talking to ...

/

Let's all just have a Beer and work this out.

150 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:07:48pm

re: #123 JacksonTn

I think he is saying it is just another way of jerking yourself off ..

There's another way?

151 saberry0530  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:08:23pm

re: #150 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

There's another way?

DEtails!

152 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:08:32pm

re: #146 debutaunt

Poor people deserve new homes and it seems to me some nice new cars as well.

I'm starting a program for the people with no homes AND no cars

RV's for U.O's (Urban Outdoorsmen)

KILLS 2 BIRDS WITH ONE LOAN

153 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:08:35pm

re: #144 DEZes

Sunny for a change, But the moonbats will be out tonight.

Shoot, always on the hours I am long fast asleep.

154 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:08:41pm

re: #150 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

There's another way?

FBV ... I am telling Mrs. FBV ... and don't you have some vacuuming to do? ...

155 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:08:42pm

re: #131 sattv4u2

Agreed. I think the program would have been a lot more effect if those cars were allowed to be resold.

156 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:09:00pm

re: #147 Killgore Trout

Then don't pay your taxes.

ironic isn't it?

157 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:09:36pm

Well I just screwed around with the dKos nirther poll numbers and a spreadsheet and came up with a distribution of responses if we assume that party affiliations conform to what the Washington Post posted here, and the US Census figures by region summarized here for the most recent common year between the two datasets (2006).

The response distribution to a hypothetical 1500 person sample is:

Was Obama born in the U S of A?

Yes No Unk
DN 146.31 6.29 4.72
DS 133.23 5.73 4.30
DM 126.06 5.42 4.07
DW 127.14 5.47 4.10

RN 38.75 25.83 27.68
RS 71.05 47.37 50.75
RM 58.47 38.98 41.76
RW 53.28 35.52 38.06

IN 87.38 8.42 9.47
IS 80.40 7.75 8.72
IM 76.02 7.33 8.24
IW 87.92 8.47 9.53

Where D is Democrat, R is Republican, I is Independent, N is Northeast, S is South, M is Midwest, and W is West.

This "datafit" takes into account party affiliations and population distributions. It assumes that the response rates among a particular party don't vary among regions.

Data crunchers should take a look and check my work. I haven't pored over the results yet - just posting them as I got them.

158 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:09:45pm
159 Gus  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:09:58pm

re: #125 MrPaulRevere

Listen to Alex Jones unplugged: [Link: hotair.com...]

Look out for the "pot bellied little dwarf new world order people!"

He actually said that. The man is pathetic regardless of if he's making this up but you know what's really scary? People out there take him seriously. Whew.

160 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:10:25pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I think the program would have been a lot more effect if those cars were allowed to be resold.

Mother Gaia farts in your general dierction

161 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:10:31pm

re: #152 sattv4u2

Awesome - it sounds like you're in the government business. Keep up the good work.

162 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:10:34pm

re: #149 SasquatchOnSteroids

Let's all just have a Beer and work this out.

Did you suggest that when Mandy couldn't open the video too?

163 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:10:37pm

re: #133 Gus 802

Paranoid schizophrenia.

Not only that he's probably sending some borderline paranoid schizophrenics over the edge.

Yeah, that's another fascinating thing about the internet. As far as I can tell, the life of an unmedicated or undermedicated paranoid schizophrenic used to be a very solitary one, and they'd sometimes accumulate great stashes of books and newspaper clippings which they thought confirmed their suspicions of great evil conspiracies. Even though they had nobody to share them with.

Now that there are people like Alex Jones who aggregate paranoid delusions and post them on web sites, I suspect that schizophrenics don't need to spend nearly as much time tracking down "leads." And I wonder if their lives have somehow become more social, with the advent of online forums where there are lots of others who share their feelings.

164 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:11:03pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I think the program would have been a lot more effect if those cars were allowed to be resold.

Thats not the intent of the program. It's to rid the roads of cars that don't get "X" miles per gallon.
Reselling them just keeps them on the road

165 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:11:19pm

re: #128 Last Mohican

You mean my post, or hers? If mine, I apologize. There's something I find at once terrifying and truly fascinating about the Internet Age: the fact that people have blogs, MySpace pages, etc. where they post deranged, violent rantings right next to the most banal trivial details... their astrological sign, a cute picture that their kid drew in art class, a funny joke they heard at work today.

Sorry, back in late -- fixing supper.

I was just wondering about the reference to the ... banned one ... if you get my drift. Perhaps I over-thought it. I don't know.

166 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:11:39pm

re: #156 albusteve

Not really. It's been that way throughout modern history. Tax money builds roads, aqueducts, law enforcement, sanitation.
What have the Romans ever done for us?

167 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:11:45pm

re: #154 JacksonTn

If it were an Olympic sport...

168 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:12:04pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I think the program would have been a lot more effect if those cars were allowed to be resold.

but the idea was to get them off the road.

169 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:12:21pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I think the program would have been a lot more effect if those cars were allowed to be resold.

But, Dear Leader and the Donks would have never been able to sell the program to the eco-freaky Watermelons...the CARS program is as much a sacrifice to the Green altar as it was a stimulus measure.

170 SixDegrees  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:12:30pm

re: #89 Killgore Trout

Kash fer klunkers update...
Ford to post 1st monthly sales increase in 2 years

It appears to be working and it's very popular so Republicans predictably leap into action to prevent a possible success...
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Becomes a Republican Target

In this case, however, year-over-year sales gains are illusory; at this time last year, auto sales were already firmly in the tank. We can look forward to similar "gains" over the next two or three quarters as comparisons with previous figures make results that are firmly awful to mediocre look "better."

I'm glad to see Ford doing well; of the Big Three, they were the only company that had their shit together, and they are continuing to benefit from solid leadership. Unlike Chrysler, which has been forced to "twofer" their own sales, adding an additional $4500 discount on top of the government's in order to attract buyers. The article notes that overall car sales will come in around 16% lower even than last year's dismal showings; apparently, government control of the auto companies is failing in comparison with well-managed private enterprise, although even there the return to profitability and growth is still in the future.

171 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:12:35pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Agreed. I think the program would have been a lot more effect if those cars were allowed to be resold.

That wasn't the point, though. Makes too much sense.

172 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:12:54pm

re: #162 debutaunt

Did you suggest that when Mandy couldn't open the video too?

I suggest nothing to Mandy.
It's not safe.

/

173 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:12:57pm

re: #159 Gus 802

"Carpet bagging filth from Europe" is my personal favorite. Of course its thinly disguised anti-semitism.

174 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:13:21pm

re: #154 JacksonTn

FBV ... I am telling Mrs. FBV ... and don't you have some vacuuming to do? ...

C'mon... haven't you ever wondered why our arms are the length that they are? Very intelligent design, if you ask me.

(*runs for cover*)

175 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:13:39pm

re: #155 Killgore Trout

re: #164 sattv4u2

Thats not the intent of the program. It's to rid the roads of cars that don't get "X" miles per gallon.
Reselling them just keeps them on the road

Yet another in a long line of gov't programs where someoen should have looked at the law of unintended consequences

176 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:14:26pm

re: #166 Killgore Trout

Not really. It's been that way throughout modern history. Tax money builds roads, aqueducts, law enforcement, sanitation.
What have the Romans ever done for us?


(at the end) boom boom boom boom
PIZZA MAN!

177 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:15:36pm

re: #174 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

C'mon... haven't you ever wondered why our arms are the length that they are? Very intelligent design, if you ask me.

(*runs for cover*)

And the thumb is for picking stuff up. Rrriiiggghhhttt.

178 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:15:44pm

re: #171 debutaunt

That wasn't the point, though. Makes too much sense.

KT want's to pollute the land and kill the planet and turn us all into simps...DRINK!

179 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:15:54pm

re: #164 sattv4u2

"The poor shall have mass transit instead of old cars. After all we don't like internal combustion engined cars anyway unless they are built inour plants and by our union friends" - the government

180 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:16:04pm

re: #175 sattv4u2

re: #164 sattv4u2


Yet another in a long line of gov't programs where someoen should have looked at the law of unintended consequences

tax the people to reward the UAW? please, the consequences were never unintended.

181 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:17:01pm

re: #180 brookly red

tax the people to reward the UAW? please, the consequences were never unintended.

you better lock your doors and cool it...

182 Gus  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:17:13pm

re: #173 MrPaulRevere

"Carpet bagging filth from Europe" is my personal favorite. Of course its thinly disguised anti-semitism.

I was trying to figure that one out. Makes you wonder about that idiot "Judge" Napolitano calling him "the great Alex Jones" and Fox News letting him have air time -- even if it was over the internet.

183 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:17:41pm

re: #159 Gus 802

Look out for the "pot bellied little dwarf new world order people!"

He actually said that. The man is pathetic regardless of if he's making this up but you know what's really scary? People out there take him seriously. Whew.

It is really scary. And he has something like the second-highest ratings of any TV host, right?

However, now and then I think it's worthwhile to remember what was happening during the Bush administration. In my blue-state neck of the woods, it was very commonplace for educated, highly functioning people to go around publicly saying things like "the Patriot act literally takes away every one of your constitutional rights. Bush is literally a fascist dictator. He is every bit as bad as the Nazis. He should not only be impeached, but executed."

Alex Jones' people are much scarier to me, but they're only a few points less rational.

184 SixDegrees  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:17:45pm

re: #131 sattv4u2

FORWARD LOOKING

Once all these 'clunkers" are swapped in and destroyed, what do people with little to no money buy when THEY need a car when THEIR clunker dies?

They can't afford the payments on a new one1
There won't be many (if any) $200-$500 shitboxes available

Will Congress come up with the same type of loan program for cars that demanded that low income, so so credit rating. spotty job history people get home loans?

It's a good question. CFC has certainly drained the used car market of cheap vehicles, and the poor will be the ones bearing the brunt of this effect for the reasons you cite.

The program also only entices those in the market for new cars in the first place, or those who would have been in the near future. There will be a corresponding slump in demand once the program expires, possibly driving a fragile auto sector recovery back into the tank. Congress, in it's abysmal wisdom, may decide to keep extending the program indefinitely, which will effectively wind up adding $4500 to the price of every car sold if allowed to continue, just as rebates demanded by consumers essentially added the rebate cost to the price of a new car.

185 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:17:48pm
186 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:17:50pm

re: #181 albusteve

you better lock your doors and cool it...

They are trying to track down Brookly, but are unsure where Brookly is.

187 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:18:03pm

The CARS program is about stimulating sales for the auto industry. Mileage ratings are a sidelight.

IMHO, the facts that (1) the trade-ins are being destroyed and (2) there's a less-than-25-year-old cap are the tip-offs.

Detroit gets more sales if the number of cars on the road is reduced.

The over-25-year crop of autos are the ones which are the real polluters.

188 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:18:13pm

re: #182 Gus 802

I was trying to figure that one out. Makes you wonder about that idiot "Judge" Napolitano calling him "the great Alex Jones" and Fox News letting him have air time -- even if it was over the internet.

Gus802 ... whores all of them ...

189 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:18:14pm

re: #180 brookly red

tax the people to reward the UAW? please, the consequences were never unintended.

heh ,,,

We have a program where we're GIVING AWAY MONEY
A couple of days in, we RUN OUT OF MONEY

Who Whoulda Thunk !!!

190 Killgore Trout  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:18:27pm

re: #176 albusteve

Such a great movie...

191 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:19:02pm

oh please...Alex is is nobody, a fringe kook that most people ignore...
( two years later he's a Senator)

192 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:20:29pm

re: #186 debutaunt

They are trying to track down Brookly, but are unsure where Brookly is.

haha!...find another map, goddammit!...it's gotta be here somewhere!

193 Gus  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:21:02pm

Have to take a nap -- later folks!

194 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:21:07pm

re: #187 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The cars program is about power, control, and ignorance all disguised as auto industry stimulus.

195 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:22:03pm

re: #194 Dominic Yeso

The cars program is about power, control, and ignorance all disguised as auto industry stimulus.

no ,, it's about paying back 2 large voter blocs

Unions
Environementalists

196 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:22:15pm

re: #174 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

C'mon... haven't you ever wondered why our arms are the length that they are? Very intelligent design, if you ask me.

(*runs for cover*)

I'll never look at Vitruvian Man the same way ever again.

197 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:22:26pm

re: #193 Gus 802

Have to take a nap -- later folks!

Good night, compañero.

198 debutaunt  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:22:26pm

re: #194 Dominic Yeso

The cars program is about power, control, and ignorance all disguised as auto industry stimulus.

I kind of wonder if the auto dealers will actually be reimbursed by the government.

199 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:22:45pm

re: #192 albusteve

haha!...find another map, goddammit!...it's gotta be here somewhere!

albusteve ... google will find you ... have you seen that website that the wife of google guy has? ... it is about sending in your DNA ... I looked at it briefly but I want to go back and see what it is all about ... I don't know if I would want to send in my DNA but I understand the need to help in finding cures ... mixed emotions of this ...

200 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:23:30pm

re: #195 sattv4u2

well that's true and that's an aspect of the power and control part.

201 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:23:59pm

re: #194 Dominic Yeso

The cars program is about power, control, and ignorance all disguised as auto industry stimulus.

so the health care program is?

202 Dominic Yeso  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:25:03pm

re: #201 brookly red

the same

203 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:25:52pm

re: #196 doppelganglander

I'll never look at Vitruvian Man the same way ever again.

His arms are in MOTION! No one ever gets that.

204 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:25:53pm

re: #199 JacksonTn

albusteve ... google will find you ... have you seen that website that the wife of google guy has? ... it is about sending in your DNA ... I looked at it briefly but I want to go back and see what it is all about ... I don't know if I would want to send in my DNA but I understand the need to help in finding cures ... mixed emotions of this ...

What does Google want with our DNA? Will I be able to search for long-lost relatives?

205 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:26:24pm

re: #180 brookly red

tax the people to reward the UAW? please, the consequences were never unintended.

Here's the kicker though...I think the CARS program is actually going to mostly benefit the "foreign" marques (Nissan, Toyota, etc.) that are not beholden to the UAW, simply because they have more eligible models to choose from, from the top to the bottom of the spectrum.

206 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:26:32pm

re: #157 karmic_inquisitor

Computing the regional distributon of party membership that this model yields, we get:

Democrats:
Northeast 27%
South 25%
Midwest 24%
West 24%

Republicans:
Northeast 17%
South 32%
Midwest 26%
West 24%

Independents:
Northeast 26%
South 24%
Midwest 23%
West 27%

Just as a heads up - the South has 2 times the population that the Northeast have. Together they make up roughly 50% of the population and the West and Midwest split (more or less) the other half.

207 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:27:47pm

re: #199 JacksonTn

albusteve ... google will find you ... have you seen that website that the wife of google guy has? ... it is about sending in your DNA ... I looked at it briefly but I want to go back and see what it is all about ... I don't know if I would want to send in my DNA but I understand the need to help in finding cures ... mixed emotions of this ...

no DNA from me...not voluntarily...the can rip it from me in jail

208 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:28:34pm

re: #204 doppelganglander

What does Google want with our DNA? Will I be able to search for long-lost relatives?

dop ... it is not google itself ... his wife is part of this company ...

[Link: www.23andme.com...]

as in everything you need to read the fine print ... they use your DNA to research ...

209 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:28:39pm

re: #190 Killgore Trout

Such a great movie...

time to rent that one again...you can sure miss alot

210 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:29:22pm

re: #205 talon_262

Here's the kicker though...I think the CARS program is actually going to mostly benefit the "foreign" marques (Nissan, Toyota, etc.) that are not beholden to the UAW, simply because they have more eligible models to choose from, from the top to the bottom of the spectrum.

hmmm, that is unintended... but who care as long as the folks getting new cars vote D.

211 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:31:48pm

re: #199 JacksonTn

albusteve ... google will find you ... have you seen that website that the wife of google guy has? ... it is about sending in your DNA ... I looked at it briefly but I want to go back and see what it is all about ... I don't know if I would want to send in my DNA but I understand the need to help in finding cures ... mixed emotions of this ...

If they want my DNA I have a suggestion on how they might get a sample...

212 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:32:17pm

re: #205 talon_262

Here's the kicker though...I think the CARS program is actually going to mostly benefit the "foreign" marques (Nissan, Toyota, etc.) that are not beholden to the UAW, simply because they have more eligible models to choose from, from the top to the bottom of the spectrum.

I wanted Lightning McQueen but got 'Mater instead.
And you may be right.

213 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:32:50pm

re: #205 talon_262

Here's the kicker though...I think the CARS program is actually going to mostly benefit the "foreign" marques (Nissan, Toyota, etc.) that are not beholden to the UAW, simply because they have more eligible models to choose from, from the top to the bottom of the spectrum.

it's not about Toyota...it's about using your money to buy votes...open, brazen pandering

214 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:32:50pm

Okay ... it is not harvest time ... but I still really like Neil ... but he makes most of his songs not available to embed off of youtube ... which sucks ...

we know where the music is playing ... let's go out and feel the night ...

215 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:33:10pm

re: #131 sattv4u2

FORWARD LOOKING

Once all these 'clunkers" are swapped in and destroyed, what do people with little to no money buy when THEY need a car when THEIR clunker dies?

They can't afford the payments on a new one1
There won't be many (if any) $200-$500 shitboxes available

Will Congress come up with the same type of loan program for cars that demanded that low income, so so credit rating. spotty job history people get home loans?

Why be you, when you can be new?

216 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:33:38pm

Bunker Buster bomb program pushed up?

bomb.

217 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:34:22pm

re: #214 JacksonTn

Okay ... it is not harvest time ... but I still really like Neil ... but he makes most of his songs not available to embed off of youtube ... which sucks ...


we know where the music is playing ... let's go out and feel the night ...

use imeem...they have every song ever recorded...no vids tho...I love the vids too

218 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:35:07pm

Cars for Clunkers - what a freaking joke.

U.S. carmakers are struggling (along with the rest of the economy) so the government hands them tons of cash. When that does little to help, the car makers they then come up with a program to get "clunkers" (which implies old polluters) off the road by giving up to $4500 for a trade in.

Consumers aren't stupid and see a way to take advantage of a government program (think free cheese) so they line up in droves. Obama touts this as "success!".

Yep. It's success alright. We succeeded in throwing $4 Billion dollars away on a short term fix for the Automotive industry.

Stimulate the economy my, er, ass.

219 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:35:07pm

re: #217 albusteve

use imeem...they have every song ever recorded...no vids tho...I love the vids too

albusteve ... yes ... I am getting really pissed off at youtube ...

220 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:35:32pm

re: #216 avanti

Bunker Buster bomb program pushed up?

bomb.

KA-Bunker-BOOM

221 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:35:52pm

re: #216 avanti

Bunker Buster bomb program pushed up?

bomb.

that's good...
wait. dosen't that require an aircraft to drop it from?

222 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:36:55pm

re: #219 JacksonTn

albusteve ... yes ... I am getting really pissed off at youtube ...

they pulled down a bunch of cool WAR vids and music...bummer, I don't know why or how it works...I click, therefore I am

223 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:37:19pm

re: #221 brookly red

that's good...
wait. dosen't that require an aircraft to drop it from?


Northrop Grumman Corp's radar-evading B-2 bomber "would be capable of carrying the bomb by July 2010," said Andy Bourland, an Air Force spokesman.

It is deployable only July 2010. Darn.

224 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:37:24pm

re: #221 brookly red

that's good...
wait. dosen't that require an aircraft to drop it from?

B-52's. We got plenty of 'em.

Maybe one day Obama will have a "cash for clunkers" program for aging military aircraft, too. Seems to me that would stimulate the economy just as much the automobile version.

225 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:37:27pm

re: #221 brookly red

that's good...
wait. dosen't that require an aircraft to drop it from?

200ft...(keep digging boys!)

226 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:39:45pm

re: #208 JacksonTn

dop ... it is not google itself ... his wife is part of this company ...

[Link: www.23andme.com...]

as in everything you need to read the fine print ... they use your DNA to research ...

And I'm sure they expect to make plenty of money from the treatments they develop using DNA samples from the rubes who actually pay them for the privilege. Seriously, what kind of meaningful information can they give you about your "risks?" There are only a handful of diseases with strongly identified genetic markers, such as Huntington's disease. They can identify markers for some types of breast cancer, but not all. This sort of thing could give false assurance to some people and create unnecessary fear in others.

227 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:40:28pm

we should just drive a few armored columns into Tehran, throw down the Mullahs, drink some beer, go home...problem solved

228 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:40:32pm

re: #223 callahan23

It is deployable only July 2010. Darn.

/oh, then there is still time to cut it from the budget...

229 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:40:35pm

re: #213 albusteve

it's not about Toyota...it's about using your money to buy votes...open, brazen pandering

We know that, but Joe Six-Pack doesn't necessarily know that...the thing is, Dear Leader and the Donks are going to wind up pissing off their buddies in the UAW if the lion's share of the CARS money goes to Nissan/Toyota/Mazda/etc. instead of the Big Three.

230 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:41:17pm

re: #226 doppelganglander

And I'm sure they expect to make plenty of money from the treatments they develop using DNA samples from the rubes who actually pay them for the privilege. Seriously, what kind of meaningful information can they give you about your "risks?" There are only a handful of diseases with strongly identified genetic markers, such as Huntington's disease. They can identify markers for some types of breast cancer, but not all. This sort of thing could give false assance to some people and create unnecessary fear in others.

Dop ... yes maybe but it is a "feel" good thing to do ... and it raises money ... I don't know because I have not gone back and really looked at the site more closely ... but google is way too much these days ...

231 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:41:58pm

re: #184 SixDegrees

It's a good question. CFC has certainly drained the used car market of cheap vehicles, and the poor will be the ones bearing the brunt of this effect for the reasons you cite.

The program also only entices those in the market for new cars in the first place, or those who would have been in the near future. There will be a corresponding slump in demand once the program expires, possibly driving a fragile auto sector recovery back into the tank. Congress, in it's abysmal wisdom, may decide to keep extending the program indefinitely, which will effectively wind up adding $4500 to the price of every car sold if allowed to continue, just as rebates demanded by consumers essentially added the rebate cost to the price of a new car.


There are millions of used cars that will not be traded in for CFC, especially cheap economical cars that did not qualify because they aren't gas guzzlers. Check ebay, the cheap used car market is alive and well.

232 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:42:03pm

re: #227 albusteve

we should just drive a few armored columns into Tehran, throw down the Mullahs, drink some beer, go home...problem solved

albusteve ... you didn't get the memo? ... beer solves everything now ... geez ...

233 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:42:56pm

re: #230 JacksonTn

Dop ... yes maybe but it is a "feel" good thing to do ... and it raises money ... I don't know because I have not gone back and really looked at the site more closely ... but google is way too much these days ...

It may make people feel good, but how useful can DNA data be without a medical history of the donor, as well as follow-up data to see whether the person develops any of the diseases he's supposedly at risk for? I'm just skeptical of the whole enterprise. The fact that Google is somehow involved doesn't help.

234 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:43:10pm
235 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:43:32pm

re: #229 talon_262

We know that, but Joe Six-Pack doesn't necessarily know that...the thing is, Dear Leader and the Donks are going to wind up pissing off their buddies in the UAW if the lion's share of the CARS money goes to Nissan/Toyota/Mazda/etc. instead of the Big Three.

look at the available cars in the deal...yes they are made in America, but they are already made...it's not stim, it's transfer...the UAW got their cut of Chrysler, so they can STFU for awhile...it's all a sick game

236 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:43:41pm

re: #220 callahan23

KA-Bunker-BOOM

You've seen the carrot, wanna see the big ass stick diplomacy.

237 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:43:48pm

re: #233 doppelganglander

It may make people feel good, but how useful can DNA data be without a medical history of the donor, as well as follow-up data to see whether the person develops any of the diseases he's supposedly at risk for? I'm just skeptical of the whole enterprise. The fact that Google is somehow involved doesn't help.

Dop ... don't know just talking about the site ... not sure what their motives are ...

238 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:44:59pm

re: #231 avanti

There are millions of used cars that will not be traded in for CFC, especially cheap economical cars that did not qualify because they aren't gas guzzlers. Check ebay, the cheap used car market is alive and well.

And for each car the CFC progaram crushes, that market shrinks by one. Doesn't take long counting to go from one to "xxx" thereby shrinking supply while there is no drop in demand causing the cheap used car market to be dead and sick!

239 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:45:43pm

re: #234 buzzsawmonkey

"I feel so cheap, so...used."

--American automobile


I'd like to use this motha...
Image: 67Chevelle_0k_medium.JPG

240 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:46:06pm

Looking at these numbers, I think the dKos model undercounts the number of Democrats in the South and overcounts the Republicans. That is my suspicion.

The hypothesis that Republicans in the South are freaking crazier than all others is watered down by the fact that the South has 2X the number of people than the Northeast.

The party membership distribution that comes out of the model is surprising in that it has more Democrats in the Northeast than in the South even though the South is 2X larger. If the South is 35% Democrat and 41% Republican based on the Washington Post data, and if the Northeast is 44% Democrat, the the dKos model is way off - it has far fewer Dems in the South than it should because the South should still hold more Democrats in aggregate than the Northeast based on the Census/Wapo data.

By under counting Dems and (thereby over counting Republicans) in the South, the poll can be used as a blunt object with which to reinforce biases about Southerners and Evangelicals. If over representation were filtered out, you'd have a less alarming poll and less with which to accuse Southerners of being bigoted.

So I am pretty sure the numbers have been goosed but welcome others to take a fresh look and disprove my suspicion.

241 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:46:34pm
242 DEZes  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:46:58pm

re: #239 albusteve

I'd like to use this motha...
[Link: img.inkfrog.com...]

That makes 2 of us.

243 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:47:09pm

re: #238 sattv4u2

And for each car the CFC progaram crushes, that market shrinks by one. Doesn't take long counting to go from one to "xxx" thereby shrinking supply while there is no drop in demand causing the cheap used car market to be dead and sick!

you and your damned ARITHMATIC!...waaahhh!

244 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:47:13pm

re: #234 buzzsawmonkey

"I feel so cheap, so...used."

--American automobile

They must be so bidder.

245 Gella  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:47:42pm

re: #239 albusteve

I'd like to use this motha...
[Link: img.inkfrog.com...]

that is different kind of animal :)

246 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:47:48pm

re: #238 sattv4u2

And for each car the CFC progaram crushes, that market shrinks by one. Doesn't take long counting to go from one to "xxx" thereby shrinking supply while there is no drop in demand causing the cheap used car market to be dead and sick!

Which is effectively what has happened in Germany after more than half a year of such a program. The used car market is effectively dead. Lots of people formerly self-supporting are now on the dole for it.

247 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:47:49pm

re: #241 buzzsawmonkey

"Hey, baby. How about a Chevro-lay?"

yup...good one

248 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:48:48pm

Something is happening here ... as he hands you a bone ... Mr. Jones ...

here is your throat back ... as he hands you a loan ...

249 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:48:48pm

re: #243 albusteve

you and your damned ARITHMATIC!...waaahhh!

In spite of Avantis pie in the sky "the cheap used car market is alive and well." they aren't making any more "cheap used cars" to restock the supply!

250 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:48:54pm

re: #245 Gella

that is different kind of animal :)

it's about the most gorgeous hunk of steel I've ever seen...

251 DEZes  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:49:29pm

Lizards, I need to get a few things done before bed time.
Thanks for keeping me company.

252 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:49:31pm

re: #246 callahan23

Which is effectively what has happened in Germany after more than half a year of such a program. The used car market is effectively dead. Lots of people formerly self-supporting are now on the dole for it.

Thanks ,, I didn't know that!

253 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:49:42pm
254 Gella  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:49:45pm

re: #250 albusteve

it's about the most gorgeous hunk of steel I've ever seen...

its classic :)

255 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:50:07pm

re: #251 DEZes

Lizards, I need to get a few things done before bed time.
Thanks for keeping me company.

night peep. sleep well.

256 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:50:23pm

re: #238 sattv4u2

And for each car the CFC progaram crushes, that market shrinks by one. Doesn't take long counting to go from one to "xxx" thereby shrinking supply while there is no drop in demand causing the cheap used car market to be dead and sick!

There you go, you harshed avanti's mellow.

257 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:51:04pm

re: #248 JacksonTn

Something is happening here ... as he hands you a bone ... Mr. Jones ...


here is your throat back ... as he hands you a loan ...

perfect snag...it's hard to do

258 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:51:12pm

re: #253 buzzsawmonkey

I don't have enough clams to buy a mussel car.

sounds fishy to me

259 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:51:25pm

re: #238 sattv4u2

And for each car the CFC progaram crushes, that market shrinks by one. Doesn't take long counting to go from one to "xxx" thereby shrinking supply while there is no drop in demand causing the cheap used car market to be dead and sick!

The market for old cars that get less than 18 MPG is pretty limited, used car lots typically will not even mess with cars under 5K, at least in Maryland. Ebay is a prime source for the really cheap cars, that have no book value. i.e. when I wanted a 500 Cu in Caddy engine for a swap in a Studebaker, I bought a $800 Caddy, drove it home and pulled the drive line and scrapped the rest..

260 callahan23  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:51:48pm

re: #251 DEZes

Lizards, I need to get a few things done before bed time.
Thanks for keeping me company.

Good night my friend.

I am also late.
Gals 'n guys, Lizards and 'menschen'.
See y'all down the road.
I love you (Lizardim} - mostly. Really!

261 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:51:51pm

re: #253 buzzsawmonkey

I don't have enough clams to buy a mussel car.

You can get a beat up Clamaro cheap if you're willing to shell out a few Finns.

262 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:52:02pm

re: #253 buzzsawmonkey

I don't have enough clams to buy a mussel car.

me neither, makes me a bit crabby

263 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:52:41pm

Going out to hang out with a friend tonight who is visiting from New York City.

Maybe she can teach this poor Southerner how to be less of a Jew-Hatin' cretin.

264 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:53:01pm

re: #261 SasquatchOnSteroids

You can get a beat up Clamaro cheap if you're willing to shell out a few Finns.

That sounds pretty fishy to me...

265 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:53:04pm

re: #259 avanti

The market for old cars that get less than 18 MPG is pretty limited, used car lots typically will not even mess with cars under 5K, at least in Maryland. Ebay is a prime source for the really cheap cars, that have no book value. i.e. when I wanted a 500 Cu in Caddy engine for a swap in a Studebaker, I bought a $800 Caddy, drove it home and pulled the drive line and scrapped the rest..

Thanks for proving my point. Thats EXACTLY the type of car/ deal poorer people look for, and it's also EXACTLY the type of car that is getting crushed

266 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:53:34pm

re: #263 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Going out to hang out with a friend tonight who is visiting from New York City.

Maybe she can teach this poor Southerner how to be less of a Jew-Hatin' cretin.

Maybe. Did she bring bagels?

267 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:54:05pm

re: #264 talon_262

beat ya (#258)

268 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:54:10pm
269 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:54:50pm

And all of you people who aren't for CFC are just being plain shellfish.

270 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:55:06pm

re: #268 buzzsawmonkey

When were you accused of being a Jew-Hatin' cretin? I miss all the good stuff.

I sell programs, soda and candy at the door. I think it was in act 4, scene 7

271 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:55:46pm

re: #240 karmic_inquisitor

I appreciate the work you've done. I don't have the math skills to replicate what you did. Are there really twice as many people in the South as in the Northeast? The poll did state which states were included in each region, so I assume you just totaled the population for each of those states. Half the people I know moved to the South from the North (including myself), but I didn't think we had twice as many people.

272 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:56:33pm

re: #268 buzzsawmonkey

When were you accused of being a Jew-Hatin' cretin? I miss all the good stuff.

Not just me. All Southern conservative minded people.

273 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:57:10pm
274 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:57:30pm

re: #268 buzzsawmonkey

I'm still interested in that little Talmudic wisdom you pointed out for me the other day.

275 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:57:37pm

re: #272 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Not just me. All Southern conservative minded people.

ohhh...an elitist bigot...got it

276 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:57:43pm

re: #272 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Not just me. All Southern conservative minded people.

FBV ... I have heard many southern democrats talking crap about Israel ...

277 TedStriker  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:58:01pm

re: #267 sattv4u2

beat ya (#258)

Damn you!

///

278 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:58:38pm

re: #277 talon_262

Damn you!

///

heh ,,, I've been damned by better than you !!

//

279 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:58:54pm

re: #276 JacksonTn

FBV ... I have heard many southern democrats talking crap about Israel ...

they saw a Jew down towards Las Cruces a year or two ago...probably a rumor

280 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 5:59:11pm
281 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:00:03pm

re: #279 albusteve

they saw a Jew down towards Las Cruces a year or two ago...probably a rumor

albusteve .. LOL ... yep ... you right about that ... but I am talking about the party ... I did not even know a jewish person except for some friends of my parents when I was growing up ...

282 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:00:32pm

re: #272 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Not just me. All Southern conservative minded people.

My son and his wife are moving to Alabama, her sweet home.

283 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:01:10pm

See y'all.

284 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:01:10pm

re: #282 Alouette

My son and his wife are moving to Alabama, her sweet home.

I'm in Atlanta

I'll look west and wave at them!

285 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:01:36pm

re: #284 sattv4u2

I'm in Atlanta

I'll look west and wave at them!

They're moving to Huntsville. I heard there are some jobs there.

286 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:02:16pm

re: #271 doppelganglander

I appreciate the work you've done. I don't have the math skills to replicate what you did. Are there really twice as many people in the South as in the Northeast? The poll did state which states were included in each region, so I assume you just totaled the population for each of those states. Half the people I know moved to the South from the North (including myself), but I didn't think we had twice as many people.


If you look at the census data as sumarized here, the Northeast had 54,741,353 in 2006 whereas the South had 109,083,752.

287 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:03:05pm

re: #240 karmic_inquisitor

Kudos for your efforts. I've been trying to resist, but me next to a statistical data set is like a golden retriever next to a lake on a hot summer day: it's hard for me not to jump in.

Where is this Kos poll that you mention? I just went over to Kos to look for it. I found various other things, like their perpetual headline showing the electoral college results from the 2008 election (turns out Obama still won! Yippee!) But I didn't find this nirther poll.

288 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:03:14pm

re: #265 sattv4u2

Thanks for proving my point. Thats EXACTLY the type of car/ deal poorer people look for, and it's also EXACTLY the type of car that is getting crushed

How many cars like that do you want, they are still out there and cheap. It's silly to think 200,000 cars off the roads will effect the used car market when we've been selling 10-15 million cars a year. Most cars from the 90's are still on the road, so we have a few 100 million left after CARS crushes the 200,000 gas guzzlers.
It will effect used car dealers however, since many will buy a new car with a rebate over a late model trade.

289 Silvergirl  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:03:22pm

re: #14 Mad Al-Jaffee

Upding because people don't say "fiddlesticks" enough.

Sadly, they say fiddle-dee-dee even less.

290 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:04:50pm

re: #281 JacksonTn

albusteve .. LOL ... yep ... you right about that ... but I am talking about the party ... I did not even know a jewish person except for some friends of my parents when I was growing up ...

my point is that down here there are Jews...and with a long colorful history of...you guessed it!, mercantiles!...they are ordinary folk and hardly judged by their heritage...I could not stand the thought of living east of the Mississippi, unless it was down around the gulf...that kind of shit gets on my nerves really fast...I have zero patience for it...NM rocks in that regard, live and let live

291 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:05:55pm

re: #288 avanti

How many cars like that do you want, they are still out there and cheap. It's silly to think 200,000 cars off the roads will effect the used car market when we've been selling 10-15 million cars a year. Most cars from the 90's are still on the road, so we have a few 100 million left after CARS crushes the 200,000 gas guzzlers.
It will effect used car dealers however, since many will buy a new car with a rebate over a late model trade.

you donut...
GLAZE

292 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:06:04pm

re: #285 Alouette

They're moving to Huntsville. I heard there are some jobs there.

Mercedes Benz, Honda and Hyundai all have assembly plants in Alabama. I think at least one of them is in/ near Huntsville. Of course, even if your son and wife aren;'t suited for the car industry, because there are plants there that brings in many other businesses

293 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:06:15pm
294 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:06:30pm
295 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:06:39pm

re: #287 Last Mohican

And by the way, the Kos "Electoral Scorecard" isn't working right. It's showing all the electoral vote totals as "NaN" ("not a number"). Maybe they're having trouble keeping up with all the fast-breaking changes.

296 Silvergirl  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:07:46pm

re: #280 Racer X

20 Geekiest Cars In Movies

Love the Ghostbusters' 59 Caddy Ambulance.

297 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:08:06pm

re: #290 albusteve

my point is that down here there are Jews...and with a long colorful history of...you guessed it!, mercantiles!...they are ordinary folk and hardly judged by their heritage...I could not stand the thought of living east of the Mississippi, unless it was down around the gulf...that kind of shit gets on my nerves really fast...I have zero patience for it...NM rocks in that regard, live and let live

albusteve ... having said I did not know many Jewish people growing up ... I will also say that I never heard bashing about Jewish people ... it was just that I grew up in a kinda just Catholic area ... the only time I heard bashing about Jewish people was when I got older and involved in the party politics ...

Oh, and this song ... (yep probably tired of hearing it) but it reminds me of my first slow dance with my first boyfriend ... sigh ...

298 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:10:17pm

re: #288 avanti

{sigh},, The 200K cars that are being crushed DIRECTY affect the very people that have to buy those cars. They cannot afford a new car note. They cannot afford a good (low mileage,,, good body,,, high MPG) vehicle from a used or dealers lot.

THOSE people aren't among us that buy 10-15 million NEW cars a year

299 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:10:22pm

re: #291 albusteve

you donut...
GLAZE

If you don't like the facts, GAZE at will. Do the math yourself:
"The United States is home to the largest passenger vehicle market of any country in the world.[1]. Overall, there were an estimated 250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2006 DOT study.[2] This number, along with the average age of vehicles, has increased steadily since 1960, indicating a growing number of vehicles per capita. "

Assume even 250,000 crushed, and see what percentage that is of over 250,000,000. Hint, it's one tenth of one percent. IMHO, .1% won't kill the used car market.

300 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:10:39pm

re: #297 JacksonTn

Oh, and this song ... (yep probably tired of hearing it) but it reminds me of my first slow dance with my first boyfriend ... sigh ...
[Video]

Wow, great "first slow dance" song. Mine was "Stairway to Heaven." The later movements arguably aren't as well-suited to slow-dancing, but it does have one advantage: it's over eight minutes long.

301 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:11:04pm

re: #297 JacksonTn

albusteve ... having said I did not know many Jewish people growing up ... I will also say that I never heard bashing about Jewish people ... it was just that I grew up in a kinda just Catholic area ... the only time I heard bashing about Jewish people was when I got older and involved in the party politics ...

Oh, and this song ... (yep probably tired of hearing it) but it reminds me of my first slow dance with my first boyfriend ... sigh ...


[Video]

great old song...really awful video...what were they thinking?

302 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:12:38pm

re: #299 avanti

If you don't like the facts, GAZE at will. Do the math yourself:
"The United States is home to the largest passenger vehicle market of any country in the world.[1]. Overall, there were an estimated 250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2006 DOT study.[2] This number, along with the average age of vehicles, has increased steadily since 1960, indicating a growing number of vehicles per capita. "

Assume even 250,000 crushed, and see what percentage that is of over 250,000,000. Hint, it's one tenth of one percent. IMHO, .1% won't kill the used car market.

you are so hung up on the periphery that your center is empty...a waste of words...save your keystrokes, God only gave you so many...and you waste them sinfully

303 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:12:38pm

re: #288 avanti

re: #298 sattv4u2

{sigh},, The 200K cars that are being crushed DIRECTY affect the very people that have to buy those cars. They cannot afford a new car note. They cannot afford a good (low mileage,,, good body,,, high MPG) vehicle from a used or dealers lot.

THOSE people aren't among us that buy 10-15 million NEW cars a year

And now the The 0ne is expanding the program (i.e. tossing more money at it that we don't have,,, FREE STUFF!! ) that 200,000 figure will balloon

304 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:12:47pm

re: #301 albusteve

great old song...really awful video...what were they thinking?

albusteve .. don't know ... I rarely watch the videos ... but I cannot tell you how much music (I know I have said this before but in case asshole records execs are listening) I buy after listening to music on youtube ... it is stupid that they don't allow embedding on so many of the songs ...

305 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:13:17pm

re: #300 Last Mohican

Wow, great "first slow dance" song. Mine was "Stairway to Heaven." The later movements arguably aren't as well-suited to slow-dancing, but it does have one advantage: it's over eight minutes long.

2nd base...at least...a potential triple

306 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:13:17pm

re: #292 sattv4u2

Mercedes Benz, Honda and Hyundai all have assembly plants in Alabama. I think at least one of them is in/ near Huntsville. Of course, even if your son and wife aren;'t suited for the car industry, because there are plants there that brings in many other businesses

Don't forget KIAville

Kia.

307 HelloDare  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:13:37pm
Paul McCartney dedicates Beatles' classic 'Michelle' to first lady Michelle Obama


Music superstar Paul McCartney is rocking out at FedEx Field Saturday night and, since he's near the White House, Sir Paul gave a special tribute to first lady Michelle Obama: Before playing the Beatles classic, "Michelle", McCartney told the packed audience that he was dedicating it to the first lady.


I love you, I love you, I love you
that's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words
I know you'll understand


I need to, I need to, I need to
I need to make you see
Oh, what you mean to me
Until I do I'm hoping
you will know what I mean
I love you


I want you, I want you, I want you
I think you know by now
I'll get to you somehow
Until I do I'm telling you
so you'll understand

Eeeesch!

308 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:15:16pm

re: #303 sattv4u2

re: #298 sattv4u2

And now the The 0ne is expanding the program (i.e. tossing more money at it that we don't have,,, FREE STUFF!! ) that 200,000 figure will balloon

If they take a million off the road, that will still not make much of a dent in the 250 million used cars in the USA. It's a false argument.

309 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:15:36pm

Frozen dinner instructions for a cheeseburger with cheese fries meal.

1.Remove film over cheeseburger, leave film over fries.

Film is NOT the right word.

2.Remove roll top, set aside.

Well I would but ITS FROZEN TO THE FUCKING CHEESEBURGER. sigh.

3. Give the hell up and call the pizza joint.

310 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:16:04pm

re: #304 JacksonTn

albusteve .. don't know ... I rarely watch the videos ... but I cannot tell you how much music (I know I have said this before but in case asshole records execs are listening) I buy after listening to music on youtube ... it is stupid that they don't allow embedding on so many of the songs ...

the entire industry is in chaos...that's exactly why most of the best bans are touring roadhouses, festivals etc with their own or small label...big music sucks...a black whole where good people fall in and are eaten alive

311 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:16:09pm

re: #307 HelloDare

Eeeesch!

HD ... well Paul not my favorite Beatle ... (George was) ... yes he was great songwriter ... but come on ... Wings? ... Shelley is not worthy ... IMO ...

/and don't friggin bash me about the first lady respect stuff ...

312 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:16:34pm

re: #306 avanti

Don't forget KIAville

Kia.

She said her son/ daughter inlaw are moving to Alabama

Kia ville is in West Point Georgia

Its' over 4 hours away. one HELL of a commute

I know all us 'suthners" are the same to you, but Alabama is NOt Georgia

313 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:17:25pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

I'm surprised this story didn't generate more heat today...
Glenn Beck Fan, Highly Armed, Busted For Casing National Guard Base, Thinking It Was A "FEMA Camp"

Friend of mine has been posting shit on his site lately that has all his friends scared to death. Pics of his ninja death outfit with more weapons than you could carry, quotes from homisuicidal Stallone movies...intervention stuff.

He's got personal and substance problems, but the right-wing hate mongering sure ain't helping.

314 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:17:44pm

re: #308 avanti

If they take a million off the road, that will still not make much of a dent in the 250 million used cars in the USA. It's a false argument.

the idea is wrong on it's very premise...yak yak yakadoodle, you Bismark

315 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:17:47pm

re: #309 SasquatchOnSteroids

Frozen dinner instructions for a cheeseburger with cheese fries meal.

1.Remove film over cheeseburger, leave film over fries.

Film is NOT the right word.

2.Remove roll top, set aside.

Well I would but ITS FROZEN TO THE FUCKING CHEESEBURGER. sigh.

3. Give the hell up and call the pizza joint.

SoS ... are you married? ...

316 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:18:18pm

re: #309 SasquatchOnSteroids

Frozen dinner instructions for a cheeseburger with cheese fries meal.

1.Remove film over cheeseburger, leave film over fries.

Film is NOT the right word.

2.Remove roll top, set aside.

Well I would but ITS FROZEN TO THE FUCKING CHEESEBURGER. sigh.

3. Give the hell up and call the pizza joint.

good move... think if you had eatten that.

317 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:18:40pm

re: #315 JacksonTn

SoS ... are you married? ...

She works nights.

318 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:19:02pm

re: #287 Last Mohican

Kudos for your efforts. I've been trying to resist, but me next to a statistical data set is like a golden retriever next to a lake on a hot summer day: it's hard for me not to jump in.

Where is this Kos poll that you mention? I just went over to Kos to look for it. I found various other things, like their perpetual headline showing the electoral college results from the 2008 election (turns out Obama still won! Yippee!) But I didn't find this nirther poll.

This is where Charles posted on the poll.

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Any data crunchers who want to verify what i put together, please do. remember that the assumption I have made (because I have no data sources with which to model it differently) is that a Republican / Democrat is as likely to say "yes" or "no" regardless of region.

319 Desert Dog  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:19:10pm

re: #308 avanti

If they take a million off the road, that will still not make much of a dent in the 250 million used cars in the USA. It's a false argument.

So why do it at all then? If it barely makes a dent on the number of cars, then it barely makes a dent on the oil consumed and the CO2 released. So, why bother? What is the point of this program then?

320 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:19:20pm

re: #317 SasquatchOnSteroids

She works nights.

find a DQ...problem solved

321 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:19:26pm

re: #307 HelloDare

Eeeesch!

re: #307 HelloDare

Eeeesch!

why doesn't Sir Paul just write an original song about Mrs Obama. He could call it "The Ballad of the Whiny Ass B*tch."

322 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:19:40pm
323 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:19:50pm

re: #319 Desert Dog

So why do it at all then? If it barely makes a dent on the number of cars, then it barely makes a dent on the oil consumed and the CO2 released. So, why bother? What is the point of this program then?

DD ... "feels" good ...

324 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:20:01pm

re: #316 brookly red

good move... think if you had eatten that.

Well, after ripping the roll top into 32 pieces, I'd had enough.

325 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:20:11pm

re: #308 avanti

If they take a million off the road, that will still not make much of a dent in the 250 million used cars in the USA. It's a false argument.

You're either WILLFULLY missing the point, or ,, well,, nevermind

Again, how many of those "250 million" used cars are of the variety that POOR people buy. The ones that go for $500 or less

Re-read (or read for the 1st time) #298

326 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:20:19pm

re: #286 karmic_inquisitor

If you look at the census data as sumarized here, the Northeast had 54,741,353 in 2006 whereas the South had 109,083,752.

Thanks. That really surprises me. Maybe the South actually will rise again. ;)

327 Desert Dog  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:20:43pm

re: #323 JacksonTn

DD ... "feels" good ...

we have a winner...

style over substance...

deliver the meaningless free crap and they will LOVE you...

328 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:21:13pm

re: #319 Desert Dog

So why do it at all then? If it barely makes a dent on the number of cars, then it barely makes a dent on the oil consumed and the CO2 released. So, why bother? What is the point of this program then?

Game, set AND match

Slam AND dunk

329 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:21:16pm

re: #327 Desert Dog

we have a winner...

style over substance...

deliver the meaningless free crap and they will LOVE you...

a donut hole

330 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:21:43pm
331 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:21:47pm

re: #320 albusteve

find a DQ...problem solved

Double Quaalude ?
Might just.

I love their vanilla shakes, BTW.

332 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:22:08pm

re: #314 albusteve

the idea is wrong on it's very premise...yak yak yakadoodle, you Bismark

Can you elaborate on your logic ? i.e. how is taking less then .1 % or even 1% of the used cars off the road going to cripple the cheap used car market ?

333 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:22:57pm

re: #292 sattv4u2

Mercedes Benz, Honda and Hyundai all have assembly plants in Alabama. I think at least one of them is in/ near Huntsville. Of course, even if your son and wife aren;'t suited for the car industry, because there are plants there that brings in many other businesses

Well, I have had 20 years in the auto industry mostly Ford and 3 years at GM. Not on the line, mind you, I was a white-collar grunt who did not have the protection of the UAW. Maybe I will move down there.

334 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:23:07pm

re: #313 Cato the Elder

Friend of mine has been posting shit on his site lately that has all his friends scared to death. Pics of his ninja death outfit with more weapons than you could carry, quotes from homisuicidal Stallone movies...intervention stuff.

He's got personal and substance problems, but the right-wing hate mongering sure ain't helping.

No, I'm sure it's really not. It sounds like your friend is in a very bad place. Maybe you should talk to him, or see if you can get a family member to talk to him. Or inform his pastor, psychiatrist, or just call the police.

335 Cannadian Club Akbar  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:23:28pm

Fuck, I posted on the wrong thread a minute ago. So goes my day.

336 HelloDare  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:23:36pm

To paraphrase Michelle Obama,

For the first time in my adult life, I want to puke, and not just because Obama is President.

337 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:24:20pm

my boring LGF posting strategy is keep it as simple as possible...when drawn into a nonsensical circular argument, you get your ass handed to you...bad enough eh?...but to come back for more from the other direction is simple lunacy...spinblab

338 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:24:26pm
339 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:24:49pm

re: #332 avanti

Can you elaborate on your logic ? i.e. how is taking less then .1 % or even 1% of the used cars off the road going to cripple the cheap used car market ?

no

340 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:25:11pm

re: #332 avanti

Can you elaborate on your logic ? i.e. how is taking less then .1 % or even 1% of the used cars off the road going to cripple the cheap used car market ?

are there really 250 million used cars???

341 Last Mohican  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:25:32pm

re: #318 karmic_inquisitor

Okay, thanks. I'll take a look. I must say, I looked at a few of those Kos polls while I was over there, and they look very suspiciously different from what most other polls are showing.

342 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:25:42pm

re: #319 Desert Dog

So why do it at all then? If it barely makes a dent on the number of cars, then it barely makes a dent on the oil consumed and the CO2 released. So, why bother? What is the point of this program then?

That was the smoke screen to give the auto companies a kick start. It won't have a big effect in the scheme of things when it come to saving gas and lowering emissions.

343 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:26:35pm
344 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:27:08pm

re: #332 avanti

Can you elaborate on your logic ? i.e. how is taking less then .1 % or even 1% of the used cars off the road going to cripple the cheap used car market ?

define "cheap"

CARMAX doesn't even have a car in the Atlanta area right now thats under $5,700


[Link: www.carmax.com...]


Many many people can;'t afford even those

345 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:28:13pm

re: #334 Last Mohican

No, I'm sure it's really not. It sounds like your friend is in a very bad place. Maybe you should talk to him, or see if you can get a family member to talk to him. Or inform his pastor, psychiatrist, or just call the police.

I've got a message pending with him. And I'm in touch with his old girlfriend, who's in touch with him. If I don't hear back from him within the hour, I'm calling him up. Then we'll see...

May have to go the distance on this one.

346 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:28:20pm

re: #326 doppelganglander

Thanks. That really surprises me. Maybe the South actually will rise again. ;)

Dop ... hahahaha ... you know what really pisses them off ... is that we are AMERICANS ... we vote and we pay taxes ... I have seen people on this blog (one or two) who just want us to disappear ... we will not ...

347 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:28:22pm

re: #342 avanti

That was the smoke screen to give the auto companies a kick start. It won't have a big effect in the scheme of things when it come to saving gas and lowering emissions.

it's not your business to kickstart car dealers...why don't you mind your own fucking business...go buy a damned car if your so concerned...get off this rightous tax bullshit...you sound like a commie more and more

348 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:28:38pm

re: #340 brookly red

are there really 250 million used cars???

There were in 2006, probably a few more today.

"The United States is home to the largest passenger vehicle market of any country in the world.[1]. Overall, there were an estimated 250,851,833 registered passenger vehicles in the United States according to a 2006 DOT study.[2] This number, along with the average age of vehicles, has increased steadily since 1960, indicating a growing number of vehicles per capita. "

349 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:28:48pm

re: #342 avanti

That was the smoke screen to give the auto companies a kick start. It won't have a big effect in the scheme of things when it come to saving gas and lowering emissions.

OH MY F*CKING WORD

On the one hand, you're saying that 200,000 cars will NOT make a dent in available used cars
In the next breath you're telling us that 200,000 new cars (out of 10-15 million sold per yera ) will KICK START the new car industry!

350 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:30:00pm
351 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:31:46pm

re: #325 sattv4u2

You're either WILLFULLY missing the point, or ,, well,, nevermind

Again, how many of those "250 million" used cars are of the variety that POOR people buy. The ones that go for $500 or less

Re-read (or read for the 1st time) #298

Must be a geographic thing, there are no $500 used cars to speak of in Maryland. 2-3K for a beater that passes state inspection is about the bottom.

352 Desert Dog  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:32:48pm

re: #342 avanti

That was the smoke screen to give the auto companies a kick start. It won't have a big effect in the scheme of things when it come to saving gas and lowering emissions.

We have given the GM and Chrysler how many billions already? Most of it down the drain. The legitimate investors and bond holders are told to go to hell and the government takes over along with the UAW. We (the people) should have told GM and Chrysler to seek bankruptcy protection last year or at the start of this year.

I am all in favor of a robust domestic auto industry, but it sure seems the politicians, the unions and some of the workers are still stuck in a fantasy world where losing billions is no big deal. The sooner they ween themselves off the government teet and start running like a real company the better. If they cannot make without the government propping them up, then they should go out of business.

353 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:32:50pm

re: #346 JacksonTn

go for it.

354 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:32:57pm

re: #351 avanti

Must be a geographic thing, there are no $500 used cars to speak of in Maryland. 2-3K for a beater that passes state inspection is about the bottom.

Yeah ,, it's geographical. I can find them in Boston, New York, here in Atlanta, Denver, L.A.,,, geographical ,,, heh

355 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:33:18pm

re: #346 JacksonTn

Dop ... hahahaha ... you know what really pisses them off ... is that we are AMERICANS ... we vote and we pay taxes ... I have seen people on this blog (one or two) who just want us to disappear ... we will not ...

Remember those European papers after Bush was re-elected ?
How can whatever many millions of people be so stoopid ?
Like that.

356 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:33:30pm
357 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:35:18pm

One thing that gets missed in "Cars for Clunkers"

There is an environmental cost to actually building a car. Quite a bit of energy gets consumed melting steel and synthesizing the plastics and whatnot, not to mention the pollutants as certain chemicals are used to give some things shiny finishes and other things matte finishes.

Those costs aren't incurred when an existing car passes from one owner to another. That I why i wonder how so many have bought into "Cars for Clunkers" somehow being "green".

The turned in car gets destroyed.

I thought Greens were big on "reuse". Maybe those values are more fungible when a "D" signs off on legislation.

358 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:35:28pm

re: #355 SasquatchOnSteroids

Remember those European papers after Bush was re-elected ?
How can whatever many millions of people be so stoopid ?
Like that.

SoS .. funny thing is ... when I get a bill from the IRS each year ... they never ask me what my degrees are ... they never ask me how smart I am ... they never ask me anything ... they just say ... this is what you owe ... and I get really f*cking tired of people just assuming that all of us down south are racist idiots ... that is all I have to say about that ...

359 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:35:40pm

re: #346 JacksonTn

Dop ... hahahaha ... you know what really pisses them off ... is that we are AMERICANS ... we vote and we pay taxes ... I have seen people on this blog (one or two) who just want us to disappear ... we will not ...

Nope. I think a lot of the problem comes from people whose knowledge of the South derives mainly from "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Deliverance." It's changed dramatically as Yankees have moved down here. That's good in some ways and not so good in others. As the bumper sticker says, "I don't care how you did it up North."

360 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:35:44pm

re: #351 avanti

Must be a geographic thing, there are no $500 used cars to speak of in Maryland. 2-3K for a beater that passes state inspection is about the bottom.

Took me all of 35 seconds

Parkville Maryland

03 Mazda Protege

$600

[Link: baltimore.craigslist.org...]

361 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:36:46pm

re: #358 JacksonTn

SoS .. funny thing is ... when I get a bill from the IRS each year ... they never ask me what my degrees are ... they never ask me how smart I am ... they never ask me anything ... they just say ... this is what you owe ... and I get really f*cking tired of people just assuming that all of us down south are racist idiots ... that is all I have to say about that ...

Exactly right.

362 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:37:03pm

The only Ford I ever owned was a 1969 LTD that I bought with nearly 100k miles on it in 1974. But since Ford did not accept any bailout money, I promise that if and when I can buy a new car, it WILL be a Ford.

363 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:37:44pm

re: #351 avanti

Must be a geographic thing, there are no $500 used cars to speak of in Maryland. 2-3K for a beater that passes state inspection is about the bottom.

you and your minions are fleecing me to subsidize another person to buy a new car, when I cannot afford that very car myself...you consider this good policy...you are a cold blooded liberal, more concerned with numbers and polls than what I have to go through in man hours to pay for your misplaced ideas...you disregard the frustration people feel because you have an empty black heart...it's theft avanti, plain and simple...the fact that you continue to avoid the ethical question with this program proves my point

364 MrPaulRevere  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:38:04pm

Our gracious host has been busy, re-working the buttons at the bottom. Looks good.

365 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:38:11pm

re: #349 sattv4u2

OH MY F*CKING WORD

On the one hand, you're saying that 200,000 cars will NOT make a dent in available used cars
In the next breath you're telling us that 200,000 new cars (out of 10-15 million sold per yera ) will KICK START the new car industry!

It already has, read the news, dealers are selling out of inventory, some sold more cars in a day then they had in a month. I agree that if it only adds say 200,000 or less sales in the end that's a drop in the bucket. We'll see when the July sales figures are released, but Ford had the first sales increase in a few years.

366 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:38:50pm
OK - what have I missed on this list?


Obama accomplishments:

Offended the Queen of England.

Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.

Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.

Kissed Hugo Chavez on the cheek.

Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia .

Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions.

Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.

Expanded the bailouts.

Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.

Insulted Gordon Brown by giving him a cheap set of DVDs he could not use in his player.

Doubled our national debt.

Announced a termination of the space defense system the day after the North Koreans launched an ICBM.

Despite the urgings of his own CIA director and the prior 4 CIA directors, released information on intelligence gathering.

Accepted without public comment the fact that five of his cabinet members cheated on their taxes and two others withdrew after they couldn't take the heat.

Told Mexicans the violence in their country was because of us.

Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from its Department of Commerce origins..

Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day announces members of the Bush administration will likely stand trial for "torturing" a terrorist, who had played a part in killing 3000 Americans, by pouring water up their nose.

Flew Air Force One over New York City causing panic at a cost of $400,000 to get a photo you can make with Photo Shop for less than a dollar.

Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure Europe that the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they might be on their own with the Muslims

Began the process of nationalizing the Auto Industry and the Insurance industry.

Announced that for intent and purposes the Health Insurance Industry will be nationalized.

Sided with Hugo Chavez instead of the Rule of Law as Honduras legally deposed Zelaya and installed Roberto Micheletti as President. It must be noted that the army did so following a lawful order of the Honduras Supreme Court.

Called an entire police department "stupid" before bothering to gather the facts.

And finally...

Traveled around the globe apologizing FOR America, yet he cannot apologize to ONE American cop?

367 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:39:32pm

re: #358 JacksonTn

SoS .. funny thing is ... when I get a bill from the IRS each year ... they never ask me what my degrees are ... they never ask me how smart I am ... they never ask me anything ... they just say ... this is what you owe ... and I get really f*cking tired of people just assuming that all of us down south are racist idiots ... that is all I have to say about that ...

Although I was born in Virginia, I have lived in the northeast for almost my entire life. The worst racists I have seen? For sure they're in Boston. And on the many occasions I have been in the south, I saw much better rapport and relations between whites and blacks than I ever saw in New England or New York.

368 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:39:43pm

re: #360 sattv4u2

Took me all of 35 seconds

Parkville Maryland

03 Mazda Protege

$600

[Link: baltimore.craigslist.org...]

Right. Gonna pass inspection no problem...

369 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:40:18pm

re: #354 sattv4u2

Yeah ,, it's geographical. I can find them in Boston, New York, here in Atlanta, Denver, L.A.,,, geographical ,,, heh

OK, state inspected cars are not $500 in Maryland, I can't comment on the areas you mention. $500 in New York seems cheap though.

370 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:40:31pm
371 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:40:39pm

re: #359 doppelganglander

Nope. I think a lot of the problem comes from people whose knowledge of the South derives mainly from "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Deliverance." It's changed dramatically as Yankees have moved down here. That's good in some ways and not so good in others. As the bumper sticker says, "I don't care how you did it up North."

Why I'm moving further north.

372 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:40:52pm

re: #368 Cato the Elder

Right. Gonna pass inspection no problem...

BRB ,, i'll call the number and ask if it;'s registered/ insured/ inspected right now

373 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:41:35pm

re: #367 _RememberTonyC

Although I was born in Virginia, I have lived in the northeast for almost my entire life. The worst racists I have seen? For sure they're in Boston. And on the many occasions I have been in the south, I saw much better rapport and relations between whites and blacks than I ever saw in New England or New York.

I have seen balls to the walls racism, bold, brazen racism right in public...in SCarolina...chilling and sureal for this northern country boy...slave/master type behavior

374 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:41:36pm

re: #369 avanti

OK, state inspected cars are not $500 in Maryland, I can't comment on the areas you mention. $500 in New York seems cheap though.

See # 360. I found you one ,, IN MARYLAND

375 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:42:48pm

re: #358 JacksonTn

re: #367 _RememberTonyC

Although I was born in Virginia, I have lived in the northeast for almost my entire life. The worst racists I have seen? For sure they're in Boston. And on the many occasions I have been in the south, I saw much better rapport and relations between whites and blacks than I ever saw in New England or New York.

Bingo ,, I was born and raised in Boston (45 years there) Have lived in Atlanta for 11 yers now. BY FAR it was worse in Boston

376 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:42:59pm

re: #373 albusteve

I have seen balls to the walls racism, bold, brazen racism right in public...in SCarolina...chilling and sureal for this northern country boy...slave/master type behavior

albusteve ... it is a state of mind ... people carry it wherever they go .. you either have it or you don't ... does not matter where you live ...

377 doppelganglander  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:43:47pm

re: #367 _RememberTonyC

Although I was born in Virginia, I have lived in the northeast for almost my entire life. The worst racists I have seen? For sure they're in Boston. And on the many occasions I have been in the south, I saw much better rapport and relations between whites and blacks than I ever saw in New England or New York.

I've never been to Boston but I've heard stories. I seem to recall their experience with school busing was a nightmare that lasted for about 35 years.

378 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:44:34pm

re: #373 albusteve

I have seen balls to the walls racism, bold, brazen racism right in public...in SCarolina...chilling and sureal for this northern country boy...slave/master type behavior

I'm sure it exists, but my trips to the south take me to more urban areas (Richmond, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, etc) where things may be better in general.

379 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:44:47pm

re: #374 sattv4u2

See # 360. I found you one ,, IN MARYLAND

$6000 not inspected is not that close to $500 inspected.

380 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:45:22pm

re: #376 JacksonTn

albusteve ... it is a state of mind ... people carry it wherever they go .. you either have it or you don't ... does not matter where you live ...

I wanted to step into the fray, this old black guy was being so abused...my wife tore me away...I was so upset I almost started to cry for that old man...I will never step foot in SC again, ever

381 Killian Bundy  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:45:45pm

Just remember, Obama says, "It is not government's takeover of health care. It's not a single-payer system like Canada. It's just not. "

Really? I think he means, not yet.

If you, can't get it in the front door, sneak it around back.

/hell of a way to run a country, eh?

382 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:46:31pm

outski for a bit...gotta go blow my nose

383 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:46:52pm

re: #377 doppelganglander

I've never been to Boston but I've heard stories. I seem to recall their experience with school busing was a nightmare that lasted for about 35 years.

Blacks who end up in South Boston by accident are in physical danger. Whatever liberal white guilt drives many Bostonians ends at the South Boston line.

384 karmic_inquisitor  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:47:06pm

Racer X -

You forgot to add "Cash for Clenchers" to your list.

385 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:47:14pm

re: #374 sattv4u2

See # 360. I found you one ,, IN MARYLAND

Check your link, that was the wrong one.

386 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:47:37pm

re: #379 avanti

$6000 not inspected is not that close to $500 inspected.

[Link: baltimore.craigslist.org...]

How bout $1,000??

387 MandyManners  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:47:40pm

re: #367 _RememberTonyC

Although I was born in Virginia, I have lived in the northeast for almost my entire life. The worst racists I have seen? For sure they're in Boston. And on the many occasions I have been in the south, I saw much better rapport and relations between whites and blacks than I ever saw in New England or New York.

Remember the violence in Boston when desegregation/bussing was forced?

388 capitalist piglet  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:47:48pm

re: #112 brookly red

So I get taxed to buy you a car? Hmmm.

Yes. And it's a success, so shut up. And those rat bastard Republicans, trying to stop it...jerks.

///

389 JacksonTn  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:47:59pm

re: #380 albusteve

I wanted to step into the fray, this old black guy was being so abused...my wife tore me away...I was so upset I almost started to cry for that old man...I will never step foot in SC again, ever

albusteve ... well so sorry for the experience but I have many many friends who are farmers in SC ... and other friends there ... and a few who are black farmers ... you can find that crap everywhere ... it has been a long long road for southern people and racism and if anyone thinks that racism is only in the south they are blinded ...

390 MandyManners  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:48:26pm

re: #371 Cato the Elder

Why I'm moving further north.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass.

391 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:48:50pm

re: #379 avanti

How bout $400??

[Link: baltimore.craigslist.org...]

392 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:48:52pm
393 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:50:04pm

re: #386 sattv4u2

[Link: baltimore.craigslist.org...]

How bout $1,000??

Needs TLC around here means good luck sucker.
Just being honest.

394 _RememberTonyC  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:50:13pm

re: #387 MandyManners

Remember the violence in Boston when desegregation/bussing was forced?

for sure I do ... I was in high school in Brockton, Mass at the time. I can still remember that image of a Black guy being attacked with a flagpole bearing the Stars and Stripes. Sickening.

395 MandyManners  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:50:22pm

FREEP! FREEP! FREEP!

396 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:51:54pm

re: #366 Racer X

OK - what have I missed on this list?

Ordered Israel not to build houses for Jews in its very own capital.

397 David IV of Georgia  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:52:04pm

For much of July, Dallas, Texas was 5 to 10°F below normal temperatures and August looks poised to follow suit. Hence we may all be confident that Global Warming™ is real and not merely a political power play to redistribute wealth.

398 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:52:18pm

re: #393 SasquatchOnSteroids

Needs TLC around here means good luck sucker.
Just being honest.

Means the same everywhere. My original point was the CFC program will make cars like this (that poor people can afford) near impossible to find. Then what, a gov't program because poor people have the RIGHHT to a new car, just as they have a RIGHT to buy a house and assume a mortgage the gov;t mandates the bank to give them?

399 brookly red  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:52:19pm

re: #388 capitalist piglet

Yes. And it's a success, so shut up. And those rat bastard Republicans, trying to stop it...jerks.

///

ah yes, the lib definition of success... it ran out of money & needs more.

400 SasquatchOnSteroids  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:53:21pm

re: #398 sattv4u2

Means the same everywhere. My original point was the CFC program will make cars like this (that poor people can afford) near impossible to find. Then what, a gov't program because poor people have the RIGHHT to a new car, just as they have a RIGHT to buy a house and assume a mortgage the gov;t mandates the bank to give them?

True. Missed your point there.

401 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:54:24pm

This YouTube freak with a Hitler mustache that has slipped down to his chin is helping the Republic by telling people that "Our founding fathers would have done something by now" (three guesses what) and ranting at police and military about their duties under the constitution.

Tags: Illuminaty FreeMasons CIA FBI BBC(big brother corp) David Icke Satanism Occult Skull and Bones Order of Death Bush Politic's George Bush Jew Zion Zionist Obama good evil Alex Jones Masons Kabbalah Bible God Satan Lucifer freedom Truth 911 Terrorism NWO New World Order 2012 Militia

Found him on the MySpace page (designed with paranoid schizophrenia as the main HTML concept) of the crazy woman Beck fan Killgore mentions in his #74. She was snooping around a National Guard post with 500 rounds of ammo for her firearms.

Yep, we are officially in deep shit. Thanks, Glenn. Thanks, Ann. Thangyouverrmuch.

402 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:55:36pm

re: #391 sattv4u2

How bout $400??

[Link: baltimore.craigslist.org...]

I can buy cars in Maryland for just above scrap value that are not inspected. Maybe different where you live, but we need windshields to pass inspection in Md. No rust on the body, good brakes and exhaust too. Keep trying, you might find a cheap Md inspected car that you can actually drive.

403 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:56:47pm

re: #400 SasquatchOnSteroids

True. Missed your point there.

N/P,,, Avanti highjacked it a few times. 1st telling me that 200,000 crushed cars would not make a dent in the used car inventory, then in the next post stating that 200,000 new cars sold due to CFC would "jump start" new car sales (an industyr that he states sells 10-15 MILLION cars a year)

404 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:57:27pm

re: #389 JacksonTn

albusteve ... well so sorry for the experience but I have many many friends who are farmers in SC ... and other friends there ... and a few who are black farmers ... you can find that crap everywhere ... it has been a long long road for southern people and racism and if anyone thinks that racism is only in the south they are blinded ...

maybe I'll reconsider...otherwise I love SC...I love everywhere!

405 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:57:29pm

re: #390 MandyManners

Don't let the door hit you on the ass.

You hicks have doors? ;^)

406 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:57:37pm

re: #384 karmic_inquisitor

Racer X -

You forgot to add "Cash for Clenchers" to your list.

Thanks - I think other presidents were dumb enough to give money to the Palestinians as well so I'll leave that one off.

Looking for others though.

407 Racer X  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:57:56pm

re: #396 Alouette

Ordered Israel not to build houses for Jews in its very own capital.

Ooh good one.

Thanks!

408 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:57:59pm

re: #402 avanti

I can buy cars in Maryland for just above scrap value that are not inspected. Maybe different where you live, but we need windshields to pass inspection in Md. No rust on the body, good brakes and exhaust too. Keep trying, you might find a cheap Md inspected car that you can actually drive.

I've given you three,, ALL in Maryland,, ALL within a minute

I didn't have to "keep looking" hard

409 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:59:12pm

And on that note, my relief has shown up. Time to drive home and catch some sleep so I can come back for another fun filled 12 hour day tomorrow

410 albusteve  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 6:59:56pm

re: #405 Cato the Elder

You hicks have doors? ;^)

haha!...made out of canvass

411 Cato the Elder  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:00:54pm

re: #408 sattv4u2

I've given you three,, ALL in Maryland,, ALL within a minute

I didn't have to "keep looking" hard

The criterion was that they have to be inspected or ready to pass inspection.

412 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:02:21pm

re: #408 sattv4u2

I've given you three,, ALL in Maryland,, ALL within a minute

I didn't have to "keep looking" hard

Can you not read or you being obtuse. The $400 Honda you posted needed a windsheild and air bags to pass MD inspection and be driven. Do you have a clue as to the price for air bag replacement, not to mention the windshield or any other work needed. Go find me that $500 car that you can actually drive in Md, not a parts car.

413 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:04:12pm

re: #411 Cato the Elder

The criterion was that they have to be inspected or ready to pass inspection.

Thank God, I thought I posting in Russian.

414 Mich-again  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:04:58pm

Chip I'm gonna come at you like a Spider Monkey!

415 David IV of Georgia  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:05:58pm

re: #413 avanti

Thank God, I thought I posting in Russian.

Что неправильно с что?

416 Jimmah  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:06:22pm

Supergrass - Seen the Light

417 sattv4u2  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:07:50pm

re: #412 avanti

Can you not read or you being obtuse. The $400 Honda you posted needed a windsheild and air bags to pass MD inspection and be driven. Do you have a clue as to the price for air bag replacement, not to mention the windshield or any other work needed. Go find me that $500 car that you can actually drive in Md, not a parts car.

And can YOUIU not read. From the onset, i've been talking about poor people buying affordable junkers. NOT used cars on a dealers lot. NOT used cars from CARMAX. You're going to tell me that in the entire state of Maryland there are NO transactions in the $500 - $1,000 range?

BULL and SHIT

(btw ,, i've been to Baltimore, Annapolis, Gaithersburg. I've SEEN those cars

So have you~!

418 irongrampa  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:08:06pm

In honor of CFC, I did my part to pollute the atmosphere today by driving the Toy for an entire day. Went through $165 in gas, at $2.52 per gallon. One of the most satisfying, burnt rubber days I've had in a while.

Do believe we'll repeat this Monday, if the police didn't become alerted.

419 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:08:47pm
420 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:10:55pm
421 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:13:10pm

re: #417 sattv4u2

And can YOUIU not read. From the onset, i've been talking about poor people buying affordable junkers. NOT used cars on a dealers lot. NOT used cars from CARMAX. You're going to tell me that in the entire state of Maryland there are NO transactions in the $500 - $1,000 range?

BULL and SHIT

(btw ,, i've been to Baltimore, Annapolis, Gaithersburg. I've SEEN those cars

So have you~!

I never said there were not $500 cars, but you inferred someone intended to drive them.(i.e. poor folk) If there are $500 state inspected cars in Maryland, I've not seen any. If poor folk have a need for $500 lawn ornaments, or parts cars, we have them covered.

422 irongrampa  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:18:20pm

re: #420 taxfreekiller

Got a pair of M&H,on some old Mopar rims, run 9psi, and the they're pinned to the rims.

423 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:18:34pm
424 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:19:39pm
425 [deleted]  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:21:43pm
426 irongrampa  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:22:16pm

re: #424 taxfreekiller

What a trip that is, just pointed the thing and pulled the trigger. It needs to make a trip to the dyno, and then opur local strip to see if it'll run 12 second quarters like I'm aiming for.

427 avanti  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 7:26:26pm

re: #426 irongrampa

What a trip that is, just pointed the thing and pulled the trigger. It needs to make a trip to the dyno, and then opur local strip to see if it'll run 12 second quarters like I'm aiming for.

Funny you mentioned the 12's, my friend just got his bone stock Studebaker in the 12's on street tires. Here's the poop.

"Muncie Dragway had a special 2-day meet this weekend. Ted Harbit participated with The Stude Tomato, his original-engine 1963 R2/4-speed Lark Custom 2-door. He said traction was unusually good. He was thrilled with the excellent 60' and quarter-mile times he was able to post, and terminal speeds he was able to achieve

Check out the following runs today. Remember, this is running in Pure Stock configuration: street tires and closed exhaust through mufflers and tail pipes! This is consistent performance, not a single-run fluke among slower runs. (Expressed, in order, are 60' times, 1/4-mile elapsed times, and 1/4-mile terminal speeds.)

Run #1: 1.950, 12.809 seconds, 108.39 MPH

Run #2: 1.984, 12.811 seconds, 109.03 MPH

Run #3: 1.913, 12.628 seconds, 109.94 MPH

Run #4: 1.919, 12.938 seconds, 099.06 MPH (backed off on this run to avoid beaking out...but still posted an ET under 13 seconds!) "

428 Joshua Cohen  Sun, Aug 2, 2009 8:20:06pm

And now something really important - it is impossible to buy a kindle in Israel.

Sure you can import it - with special permission from the ministry, against big money but even then you can not buy books for it (and get them loaded to it).


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