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hmmm i am not quite sure what my post has done because i have been on vacation and this is the first time i have checked back. not that i am really even interested int eh topic itself i just posted because i thought it was worthy news. If this does get moved to the "political" thread i wont be able to read it as i am not premium member.

mr mcCONnell meet failing banking system. they want more money and havent done a thing to show for it. give em another blank check you say?

I got back from a trip to Chattanooga TN today and had to post these pics i took at the International Towing and Recovery museum there on south broad street. i'll post some of the high marks and heres the link to the album the rest are in.

he just needs to load some shells with rock salt. it sanitizes the wound it creates heheh

michael bay presents explosions! hehe everytime i see one of his movies i think of that now.

exactly, the victims become the defendants just like here

come now, you must have seen how poorly the "prized" saturns did at barrett jackson where everything is 30% more than what it should have been. the difference is the years and how desirable. in 30 yrs who will find a saturn that desirable? i doubt you'll see one at mcD's cruise in and someone running over to say "oh snap a twin cam!" cars these days are engineered to be tossed in 10yrs time. cars like yours and mine are timeless.

is it just me or is anyone else feeling honda accord coupe?

i think the whole worlds gone mad. the comments are great though satty you best stay low, they may come for you too hehehe

When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say. Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week. That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada. Pelletier is one of a growing number of scientists studying the environmental costs of food from field to plate. By looking at everything from how much grain a cow eats before it is ready for slaughter to the emissions released by manure, they are getting a clearer idea of the true costs of food. The livestock sector is estimated to account for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and beef is the biggest culprit. Even though beef only accounts for 30 percent of meat consumption in the developed world it's responsible for 78 percent of the emissions, Pelletier said Sunday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. That's because a single kilogram of beef produces 16 kilograms carbon dioxide equivalent emissions: four times higher than pork and more than ten times as much as a kilogram of poultry, Pelletier said. If people were to simply switch from beef to chicken, emissions would be cut by 70 percent, Pelletier said. Another part of the problem is people are eating far more meat than they need to. "Meat once was a luxury in our diet," Pelletier said. "We used to eat it once a week. Now we eat it every day." If meat consumption in the developed world was cut from the current level of about 90 kilograms a year to the recommended level of 53 kilograms a year, livestock related emissions would fall by 44 percent. "Given the projected doubling of (global) meat production by 2050, we're going to have to cut our emissions by half just to maintain current levels," Pelletier said. "Technical improvements are not going to get us there." That's why changing the kinds of food people eat is so important, said Chris Weber, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania. Food is the third largest contributor to the average US household's carbon footprint after driving and utilities, and in Europe - where people drive less and have smaller homes - it has an even greater impact. "Food is of particular importance to a consumer's impact because it's a daily choice that is, at least in theory, easy to change," Weber said. "You make your choice every day about what to eat, but once you have a house and a car you're locked into that for a while." The average US household contributes about five tons of carbon dioxide a year by driving and about 3.5 tons of equivalent emissions with what they eat, he said. "Switching to no red meat and no dairy products is the equivalent of (cutting out) 8,100 miles driven in a car ... that gets 25 miles to the gallon," Weber said in an interview following the symposium. Buying local meat and produce will not have nearly the same effect, he cautioned. That's because only five percent of the emissions related to food come from transporting food to market. "You can have a much bigger impact by shifting just one day a week from meat and dairy to anything else than going local every day of the year," Weber said. For more information on how to eat a low carbon diet, visit www.eatlowcarbon.org. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CN...;show_article=1

WASHINGTON (AP) - It will take more than one "car czar" to help get the embattled U.S. auto industry back on track, President Barack Obama has decided. Instead, his administration is establishing a presidential task force to direct the restructuring of General Motors Corp. (GM) and Chrysler LLC, a senior administration official said Sunday night. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers will oversee the across-the-government panel, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because no announcement has been made. GM and Chrysler are expected to submit restructuring plans to the government by Tuesday, the deadline for showing how they can repay billions in loans and become viable in spite of a huge drop in auto sales. The auto industry task force is just one element of Obama's plan to revive the flailing economy. On Tuesday he's flying to Denver to sign the $787 billion stimulus bill into law, taking his economic message to the American people, who are giving him high marks for handling the crisis. Obama will also be tackling the home mortgage foreclosure crisis. The direct appeals for public support follow scant GOP backing in Congress for his agenda and increasing partisan bickering. Passage of the stimulus measure - unprecedented in its cost - was a major victory for Obama as he struggles to lift the country from a financial nosedive unseen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. "I think it's safe to say that things have not yet bottomed out," press secretary Robert Gibbs said Sunday. "They are probably going to get worse before they improve. But this is a big step forward toward making that improvement and putting people back to work." The symbolism of the stimulus signing is obvious for Colorado, where a growing green-energy industry will draw major benefits from the plan. And Obama seems likely to continue selling that recovery by traveling around the country. "He is determined to keep in touch with the American people who sent him here to do this job," senior adviser David Axelrod said. With the stimulus victory in hand, Obama planned to shift to the housing crisis with an announcement Wednesday in Phoenix. Obama was expected to offer help to homeowners on the brink of foreclosure. Details have not been disclosed, but the nature of the crisis suggested mortgage loans would have to be revalued downward along with interest rates. --- Associated Press writer Philip Elliott contributed to this report from Chicago. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090216/D96CLG6O0.html

might i suggest a 12 iron with #4 rock salt for next time?

rpo's are the only thing i know thats recognizable. L79, L78, LS6

sigh.... doraville is where that red beauty in my sig came from in 4th week of may

well with the trip that was made to the "money tree" last night i doubt they can make anymore trips. odd that it is supposed to save 3.5 million jobs when a provider of half that many alone could soon join the dodo.

what about dat?

i can only imagine the calamity a deer strike would cause that. look like a spam can smashed with a bat. you know i think this will be great when top gear tests one. they will put it against the g-wizz hehe

chex

/eric clapton voice/ she dont like, she dont like, she dont like...... cocaine/eric clapton voice/

does this mean volts will be showing up for test and tune nights at the local strip? hehe "i just downloaded drag pack 2.0 lets see how it works..."

the white dog and the weim they have are awesome

i'll stick to my 48 senior 101. we got a 52 A as well... hand clutch FTL hehehe

and has history international there is a program that comes on weekdays at 10 am and 4 pm called voyages. they do all kinds of things like boats planes trains and cars. i have seen the austin's jag's, prosche's, and bmw stories. today though they did saab. it was pretty interesting although the show is rather old (98) but really its the first 45 minutes thats captivating anyway. just figured i would share in case someone was interested. this was on there as was this