Fifty gazillion cops and taxi drivers can't be wrong.
Nibbles isn't treating me right for the last couple of days; there's supposed to be a picture of a Crown Victoria there.
Poor Nibbles! They feed him cheap, bad, industrial grade kibble and then expect him to work round the clock. LISSENUP you GawkerCo sonsabitches!!! Who do you think you are, the management of Massey Energy or something? You either get a second hamster for the night shift or I'm gonna, I dunno what.
Anyway, here's the bitmap. Again.
In the TSA's defense, here's an anecdatum, the only time I've flown recently I got sent through the pornoscanner, and I am old and distressingly ugly.
Yeah!
Sorry, I stole your diz and edited it to express my own experience.
Sheet aluminum with louvers, like a Locost.
Not so! You've still got the convertible top. Wind in the hair, all that.
Fine, unusual comment. Kinda rare, I could know remainder of laugh lines even despite a glaring aberration in narration!
0:14 - ah, I miss the real oil pressure gauge they had on my old '93, but replaced with a pseudo-gauge/fancy idiot light on my '99.
Why are you people posting pictures of two-seaters with no room at all in the back?
/SAAB, come back!
Exactly, you'd think a big publication like National Geographic could afford a spell-checker.
Oh fuckin A, in about fifteen minutes I'm going to be on that very road, bumper to bumper with Florida's famous, fabulous moron population, trying to make it home from work. Wish me luck.
nope they're not kidding you, they're completely serious! insane but serious
2:21 FTW!
Also, if you hold down the shift key while trying to type "2:21" you get "@:@!" which seems appropriate.
Yeah, because shutting down Gitmo is such a uniquely high priority to Obama and his base that it would be well worth it to make all DOD operations worldwide grind to a halt because funding has not been authorized. This would make perfect sense to the Congressional Republicans who threatened to shut down the entire government by refusing to allow a vote on raising the debt ceiling, but not necessarily so much sense to the rest of us.
Ray couldn't have written anything different (without outright lying, but I don't think either Mr. Wert or GawkerCo lack journalistic ethics).
Here are the legislative facts. On 12/10/08, the House passed the Auto Industry Financing and Restructuring Act of 2008. The vote on the bill was 203 (D)s and 32 (R)s for, and 32 (D)s and 150 (R)s against. However, the bill failed in the Senate, where 60 votes were necessary to invoke cloture; the vote there was 41 (D)s, 9 (R)s and 2 (other)s for and 4 (D)s and 31 (R)s against. At this point, Bush defied the vast majority of congressional Republicans (181 to 41), and by a Presidential finding decided that $13.4-billion out of the $700-billion TARP program could be allocated as loans to the Detroit automakers.
I was relieved and quite surprised when I read about it. I've never been a GWB fan, far from it, but that was a responsible decision and particularly admirable in that it was so unpopular with his political base. Keep in mind that when workers are laid off, aggregate demand takes a major hit leading to yet higher unemployment, and property values in residential housing also take a hit, leading to yet more pressure on banks holding mortgages. Now look at this graph, which I lifted from the Calculated Risk website and made even more pessimistic to illustrate an alternate history where there had been no bailout. The length of those red lines hanging down during 2009 represents the number of jobs lost in each month. Now let's imagine Bush had gone along with the party line and thus added an additional million jobs lost in 2009; that's an average of 83,000 jobs lost per month. That's shown by the dotted lines. That's what Republican congressmen voted for by a margin of 181 to 41.
On Decemeber 10, 2008, the House passed an auto industry bailout by a vote of 237 - 205 (D) and 32 (R) - to 170. But by the next day, Republicans in the Senate had filibustered the bill. At this point the Bush Administration diverted $13.4-billion of the $700-billion allocated by TARP to make a "bridge loan" to the Detroit carmakers.
You call this "fiction," but these are historical facts. Concerning the subsequent continuous Republican opposition to the auto industry bailout, if I had to I could supply you with hundreds of links to document it. It would be a trivially easy exercise, but a depressing one however, searching out quotations by so many swine so fully dedicated to transferring the wealth of the U.S. working class to the U.S. investing class.
I'm not buying it. The fact is that one party eagerly wanted to smash the labor unions, bankrupt Detroit's automobile industry, and put an additional million people out of work, in the darkest depth of the worst American recession since the Great Depression. The other party didn't let that happen; and so that first party has been complaining about it non-stop ever since. No amount of "post-partisan" blather can change that fact.
You rich guys wanna show off how much money you've got, why not buy a Rolls-Royce sedan instead? If the standard models's costs are not high enough, the sky's the limit on the price tag if you take advantage of the RR factory's "bespoke"* program.
They are sublimely comfortable. They are unrealistically speedy. All sidewalk eyes, green with envy, will be upon you as you ride in one. One can enter or exit the car without contorting oneself like an Olympic gymnast. There is room for many friends, admirers and sycophants. Practically every indulgence imaginable can be practiced inside one. Last but not least, I can not remember any Rolls-Royce sedan committing hari-kiri by self-immolation, as is the too-common case for these so-called "supercars."
* Weenie for "custom"
I'll bet there's more than fiberboard in between the gas tank and the passenger compartment in your 8-series.
Well, not my first car but close, to my '67 SAAB Monte Carlo:
Yerah it's a road, it's a dirt road. Gotcher seat belt fastened? Well you betta, lemme show ya something cool HA HA YAAAAAAH! GGrrrrrrrrRRRROW! waaaaAAAh WUH mmMMmmMMmm MMMMMRRRROWwuh wuh wuh eeeEEEE! WAHHHHwuhwaaaaAAAAHHH wuh wuh chkWAHHHHH!! (whisp) (THUMP!) vrrrRRRROW bap bap VRRROW bappa EEE!!SSSSS! bubba bubba bubba pop bubba bub bub bub Oh ho ho ho ho! Ah ha ha ha ha! Didn't think we'd make that corner didja? Thought we'd end up in those orange trees? Just looka the 2-stroke-smoke! Can you believe that? LET'S DO IT AGAIN!
