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BINGO! We have a winner. Honestly, I just chalk it up to jealousy over the weather and scenery. No one can come out here and truly hate it.

NOS, everyone gets SAD when they aren't seeing sunlight for weeks on end. I've fake-baked too...but my point is that everyone has their vices, and you shouldn't be so judgmental about it, whether it's smoking, fake-baking, candy, soda or fast food. What's disgusting to you...well it's someone else's life.

How long have you been able to go on gmbuypower and check an option box for one of 5 different state/federal emmission standards? I agree with your sentiment, and if that is what eventually happens, then I'm sure something will be done about it. Really, the issue as I see it is that Obama granted a waiver, which is not a binding change to the law. The waivers, in my speculation, are a temporary measure before federal emissions are raised to reflect those of CARB.

Thinly disguised racism is unacceptable.

I most certainly can when I'm responding to your claim of: Let me put it to you in another way. We all know you enjoy your tanning beds. But there's really no reason to fake-bake! Wrinkled, leathery skin, sun splotches, shortened life, skin cancer, sunburn, a lingering after-tan odor, etc. Get it?

Both...but to differing extents.

Where did I ever say it did? Oh, and the smell thing is definitely subjective. Many people actually LIKE the smell of cigarettes I'm not a fan, but I've met plenty of people who are...I can't fathom it.

It's really mainly for trucks. As it is, CA can only really regulate emissions because any other requirements would violate the Interstate Commerce Act.

CA has very little manufacturing. The vast majority of air pollution is generated getting Americans their imported goods from Asia and elsewhere. If you look at smog maps, it's concentrated down at the ports, along the main trucking routes (110, 710, 605, 15, 5, and 10 freeways), and then some concentrations in the basins (duh, geographic features that capture and accumulate smog). Downtown LA has some fierce smog, but virtually no manufacturing.

No, not entirely. The positive effect on attention and concentration, as well as the appetite-suppressing qualities were fairly well-known. The nerve-calming thing was also well-known. Did marketing take this and play it up? Of course. But people have been smoking for millenia, and only in the past 50 years has anything started to change.

Yes, and originally the S-series was going to be the first of the architecture replacing the J-bodies, hence the styling similarities.

False. I'm smoking my way to a 6-pack. It's also a mean stress reliever, and when combined with coffee, a mean metabolic booster. It can also boost alertness during the day, as well as do amazing things to your singing voice. I'm certainly not advocating smoking, and I'm not disagreeing that it's a bad habit, but the argument in your post is simplistic and ignorant. Remember, until the whole lung cancer thing came about, smoking was considered "healthy" and "beneficial" for your continued health--that didn't come completely out of nowhere.

Just talk to her. Don't stress about what to say--JUST TALK TO HER. She'll appreciate it, and the conversation will take its course. As for not seeing her--by all means do what you can to travel down to visit her. Presidents' Day is coming up soon, so maybe you can snag some cheap airfare on Southwest or something. You're going to regret it if you don't.

I used to be very much against this kind of governance, but after living in California for the past several years I see the necessity of it. See, CA has to suffer some of the worst pollution in the country. I say "suffer" because the vast majority of the air pollution is a direct result of the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach--the ships that until recently idled, the idling filthy diesel trucks that receive the imported goods, the belching diesel locomotives that ship the goods across the country...to where? Oh yeah, all 47 other contiguous states. California has come so far since the 1970s when smog was so bad you couldn't even see downtown from a mile away, or the tops of skyscrapers when you were right next to them on the Harbor Freeway. That said, there's a lot more improvements to air quality that need to be made, and also a social justice aspect as well--poor people who can only afford to live next to the freeway shouldn't have to be plagued with noxious air. Their children shouldn't come inside from playing in the backyard covered in diesel soot. Hell, you can't even park your car outside for an hour without it being covered in filth. It's for reasons such as these that the current standards are not strict enough for many states. If California wants to regulate its emmissions with tougher standards, then I have no problem with it because of all the good that will come out of it. The fact that 14 other states want to join on, though, speaks volumes to me of how what I have seen and observed out here more than likely is mirrored across the U.S.

It isn't always so poorly executed, though. See, this Buick looks fantastic except for that chrome strip, which IMO makes it look like a Hyundai. Cadillac does their big chrome strip across the back of the CTS better. It just seems to me that the chrome around the taillight surrounds on the Buick is just fine. On the CTS, the chrome strip works because there is very little chrome on the rear; on the Buick it is just overkill.

I really want to know who designed and authorized that chrome strip across the back because I seriously question their taste level.

Please don't get my hopes up.

I don't do eastern Europe...sorry, no dice.

Video confirms it: that chrome strip is just tacky.

Whoa. I wish she sat next to me in 10th grade! But no, I had a fat nerdy lesbian chick

And good thing they cordoned it off...otherwise we'd have to suffer through pictures of Kris deconstructing the dash

No worries. It isn't a national holiday or anything...yet.

Ah yes, I was at the Peterson. Well I'll have to check this place out in El Segundo. Address?

That bling across the rear incorporating the logo is just tacky, marring what otherwise would be an impeccable exterior.

Word to this. For the first few years I could stop whenever I wanted to. Now...not so much. I have to be VERY OCCUPIED to be able to ignore/not feel the withdrawel symptoms when I'm around non-smokers all day long. But when by myself at the end of the day...I just NEED ONE NOW. It's sick.