Robert Hall

If I dwell to much on the state of the world today, it makes me really depressed... Phoenix is too sunny... some days I feel like being in gray wintry Cleveland listening to Nine Inch Nails (which is where I was 15 years ago and what I was listening to)... How are we going to get out this downward spiral?

Saw a black Challenger SRT8 in traffic this morning--goregous--with a license plate reading 'NOT2GRN' and an Obama 08 sticker on the bumper. Woo hoo!!! Supreme coolness. Saw a yellow w/ white top 'Banana Boat' '78/79 Caddy Coupe de Ville lowrider this morning and this evening...very clean shape. Saw a silver '72 Impala Custom Coupe w/ a white hood sitting at a gas station, looked solid.

+1 Chris +2. Sadly, recent history shows us that most Amuricuns want a 'shoot first, silence any questions' cowboy in the oval office...

Well, Lexus is the market leader (top selling luxury brand in the US), so it's inevitable that they will be copied...

For some reason, SAAB's have had an appeal to me for a long time, since reading about their rally exploits in Road & Track as a kid... back in the '90s, on several occasions I had fun driving the '92 900 Turbo my sister had then around the Boston area, out on Cape Cod, etc.. fun, quirky car. Not something I'd need in Arizona, but the AWD would be a nice to have if I moved to a place that has snow and ice.. I've never been much for FWD, but there are certain SAABs, Acuras, and Audis I've long liked..

Yes! and it's a rare GM with a manual transmission, a feature GM seems to have largely forgotten on most of it's US brand models.. nice to see this coexisting with the CTS and G8 GXP... there is room for a variety of sports sedans within GM...they have more than enough pedestrian vanilla FWD models for the mainstream.

The ultimate Epsilon-based car, sounds like. Sounds like a fun Audi-esque GM model.

Uh-oh...I'd better watch out for black helicopters and 'burbans.. I've also been to Riyadh and Kuwait City years ago...

Hmmm...makes me wonder how practical a road trip of 1000 (or 100) miles in a Volt would be..

Yes, they are nice..here's mine (well, my sister's, since I'm renting her house in Phoenix currently):

That's a good one...I love that Chuck Norris website... I wonder if someone does a 'Chuck Norris feat of the day' mailing list..

I've been through Lockport..went to Niagra Falls about 10 years for a bachelor party.

I think I've figured it out. It makes perfect sense. Saturn is the 'European influenced' brand what with the Opel-based models, and now Pontiac is going to be the 'Pacific Rim influenced' brand, with the Australian G8, Japanese Vibe, and now the Korean G3 !

That's wierd. Well, this one won't be.

I have a friend that actually traded a GMC Jimmy on a Prius..I'll have to ask him if he's go back to GM with the Volt.

They seem strange, esp. WRT medicine... I have read a number of very good articles on the Christian Science Monitor website, though...on all sorts of topics.

Not Scientologists, but I have worked with a Jehovah's Witness...kind of a strange fellow..HR warned him not to be trying prosletyze in the office..what I know of JW is that they seem cultish. I was never bothered by them going door-to-door in Colorado (gated community), but they have come to my sister's door here in AZ, ignoring the prominent 'no solicitors' and ADT security signs out front..

Noooooooooo...that's science fiction.. Never known a Scientologist. They sound pretty nutty from what I've read, though.

I believe in mathematics, science and technology--rational thought--not mythology. Therefore, I've always assumed that I'm superior to the religious right.. The views of the far right religious extremists don't hold up to rational analysis, therefore they are unworthy of consideration. I didn't say that. I believe in the Constitution, it's very important to me. But, some amendments have been repealed before (prohibition)...the 2nd Amendment is much less important to me than others like the 1st Amendment..it's not 1776, the Constitution has evolved over time with Amendments...

I've tried to stick to every 3000 miles for my Jeep, a couple of times I went to 5000 though. I've followed my maintenance schedule closely, as far as getting the transmission fluid changed, transfer case, rear axle service, etc. Other than 2 sets of tires, 2 sets of brake rotors and pads, a set of shocks, 2 serpentine belts, a few bulbs, and a battery the only non-scheduled repairs I've had in 94k miles is to replace the thermostat twice (leaks) and have the transfer case and rear axle re-sealed. All the interior electricals (heated power seats, stereo, power windows, etc) and even the exhaust are original and have had no problems. The transmission is historically the bugaboo w/ GCs, but so far, no problems. I'd like to get 12 yrs/150k out of it.

I'm 38..I remember seeing the early '80s X-cars and J-cars as rusted out beaters by the late '80s..they didn't last in the Rust Belt...the GM's I liked in the '80s were the F-,G-,B-, and C-bodies... lots of F- and G- bodies (and some B-'s) in my high school...

I didn't say anything about all religions...I have plenty of friends that are religious..I was talking about the extremists--the fundie, evangelical folks like Palin--she's a Pentocostal. I've lived in the Bible Belt (Colorado Springs)..people like her are very dangerous and have no business being in power, IMHO. I'm a strict modernist and secular humanist, believe in science and technology and believe religious or spirtual beliefs are a personal choice and have no place in the government, the classroom, or in public life in the modern world. Irrational extremists like Palin believe the earth is 5000 years old and oppose science research (like stem cell research), want creationism in the classroom, etc. There is no place for someone like her at the top of government..she would try and impose her extremist views on Supreme Court nominees, etc.

I couldn't care less about the 2nd amendment.

Excellent article..as a well-educated atheist myself, I despise the idiotic mindset of religious extremist retards like Palin..

Believe what you want to believe.... anyway you look at it, the Cimmaron was a pathetic excuse for a Cadillac. The J-cars, X-cars, etc were mediocre crap best forgotten. It was the low point of modern GM history.