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Wed Dec 2
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Does the Diet Coke cancel out previously eaten calories? #joebiden
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There are people allergic to phenylalanine, and I hear it also causes more cravings. #joebiden
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Plus, I heard on the radio at lunch she ate her hot dog with a knife and fork, and that Biden whipped out a couple hundreds and bought everybody in the place lunch. #joebiden
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That's probably the only reason I'd go back to Detroit. That and to make my pilgrimage to Jalopnik HQ and pray to the deities of hoonage. #joebiden
11/09/09
I love driving down to the place at 7am on a Sunday morning when the roads are still empty, the drug dealers are just hitting the bed. Snick the gear lever into 6th, Cruise control on, a bit of music, heating turned on just so. A perfect time to think and contemplate. #joebiden
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Always has, always will. #joebiden
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Somewhere allong the lines of fixing the computers people would bring in to the shop while telling me that they never broke as I am fixing their stuff... and Apple having commercials talking not about how cool their stuff was, but why Pepsi to their Coke would give you cancer and eat your children... something inside me snapped and I decided to get away from the product in general.
@beercheck: he has gotten to where he is by riding the back of a bla.. um... half whtie guy. #joebiden
11/08/08
11/07/08
Someone to inflate your tires, someone who cares
Your own presidential Jesus
Ties to radicals like Ayers, someone with flair....
11/07/08
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Throwing money never puts a fire out.
11/07/08
While Toyota made the Prius and every non-domestic automaker came out with hybrid's, GM built Tahoe hybrids. TAHOE HYBRIDS! No one is going to purchase a "Hybrid" that gets 24 mpg highway. It's just not gonna sell.
I think if the impotent 3, I'm trademarking that, want anymore bailouts the CEO's should resign. That's our money being handed to you to make cars we want. Obviously you havent been doing the job to this point, why should we trust you to do it right the 2nd/3rd time around? Want a bailout Impotent 3? Then have the CEO's resign. They'll either stop begging for our cash or they'll start making changes, QUICK.
11/07/08
Or having the Michigan fat-asses pay more than a $15 co-pay when all that consumed pork turns into a triple by-pass.
Oh wait, he loves Unions and doesn't see that they are killing these car companies. They can't spend money on innovation because its going to legacy union workers, and thats exactly where all the money Hussein gives them will go.
"But they need their union! Or the company will hurt them"
Look at all the foreign car factory plants in America, none have Unions, but their workers are well taken care of. And no foreign companies will go within 400 miles of a plant that does. Yet they make better cars and aren't falling out of the sky. Hmph, maybe something needs to CHANGE!
11/07/08
With the Automakers, it should be survival of the fittest, and right now, GM seems to be putting on a few pounds (or they've been putting them on for 10 years and are now being forced to do wind sprints)
I'm not totally against Washington bailing out Detroit, but in a way that totally doesn't screw over taxpayers, and that forces GM to change and transform, so that in 40 years or so, in the next credit crunch (Yes, this has happened before, see Martin Van Buren), GM will be somewhat prepared, and have somewhat, well, competent management.
11/07/08
How to change this? Not an easy one.
11/07/08
The Union members are at least as screwed as everybody else these days.
11/07/08
I am fully aware of the history of Unions and the marked influence they have in transforming American factories into something humane. While I haven't read "The Jungle" by Upton, I am fully aware of its contents and more importantly its influence.
HOWEVER, Unions aren't what they used to be and and become more and more a way for Union bosses who exert mafia control over a workforce to get rich without spending a single say on the manufacturing floor. The Union as a whole strangles the company while telling them they need more air.
Fix it? No, scrap it! If the people resist, then move. If Union laws prevent moving (they probably do). Dump the company, start a new one and eventually the Union ideology will die once the entire northern midwest is unemployed and hungry. Then move the new company back and conduct business like foreign companies on our soil.
11/09/08
Don't get me wrong; it is their nature to seek profit and cut costs but they have to be limited somehow.
11/07/08
;)