Drew Dowdell

It had nothing to do with their product. It was all just market manipulation.

ignoring a crackpot != hiding

I like a proportionally short deck lid with a proportionally long hood. Thusly: This is something I would consider out of proportion.

Fact check first. Post second.

U.S.S.R. - The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. This doesn't answer my question. If we are returning to Clinton era tax rates, does that mean we were socialist for 8 years and didn't know it? Has nothing to do with what I asked. One: I don't understand the fear of socialism. Sweden isn't exactly a bad place. Two: Clinton era tax rates + healthcare + middle class tax cuts != socialism it just doesn't add up. Perhaps a name change from "Universal Healthcare" to something like POLR Healthcare would ease your mind a bit. Obama's plan is NOT universal healthcare. POLR is a term we use in the energy industry that stands for Provider Of Last Resort. If you currently have healthcare, nothing will change for you. You keep your plan. If you lose your job, you default back to a basic plan that will cover you in emergencies. Keep in mind that we have a backdoor version of this today. If someone poor gets very sick and is admitted to the ER, you pay the cost in higher hospital bills and insurance rates. Obama's plan is not socialized medicine. It's a provider of last resort insurance plan when you can't get insurance any other way. Edit: The Germans have a similar setup to Obama's plan. In Germany, health insurance is mandatory. Employers offer coverage, but you're free to choose any plan you like. There is also a basic federal plan that you can default to. The complaint the Germans have is that healthcare is NOT universal. If you're rich, you can afford more insurance and thus more expensive procedures. Edit II: If that doesn't ease your mind. Here is the link to the Soviet national anthem so you can practice for January 20th.

Had the McCain of 2000 been running this would have been a difficult decision for me. The disrespectful, mudslinging, and incoherence McCain has run his campaign with not only cost him my potential vote but also the respect I had for the man. Pandering to the neo-con right wing with Palin when I KNOW he doesn't believe most of the thing she is spouting adds hypocrisy and dishonesty to the list. He had his chance.... he blew it.

Could you imagine blacks in 1964 voting for Byrd?

Please. I'm asking in the nicest way possible, explain your reasoning behind this belief. Just justify the statement. I really need to know how 36.5% tax under Bush isn't socialism, but the 39.5% we had under Clinton will have people singing the Soviet National anthem.

And what SMK thinks is what dictates the market. You mean like this? I also like the KMart LCD you get if you don't buy the Navi. The Enclave doesn't look as big as a Tahoe. Given the sales statistics, I'd say there is a lot of cross shopping going on.

Tell us why the Enclave isn't luxury? Price and ability to circle the nurburgring are not factors.

I'm no Hillary fan but Hillary would kick Sarah's ass all the way back to Alaska.

The Enclave starts there, but transaction prices are much higher. Buick had the opposite problem with the Enclave as Cadillac had with the SRX. This time, there aren't enough high end models.

One week till I say auf wiedersehen.

damn, am I really that asleep?

What are the RX's sales since May 2008 when the Enclave was released?

And the CTS outsells the IS. Way to compare non-similar vehicles. The ES is lipstick on the Camry pig. The Lacrosse is the Malibu <already excellent in it's own right> with all the lessons learned from the CTS. If Toyota isn't worried about the Lacrosse, so much the better. Let them get caught with their pants down.

If the worst that could happen, does happen, at least I know the country would be in competent hands.

"I don't know what weapons will be used in world war III, but world war IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

Does it run on moonshine now? HAH... I kill me.... *cough* Did someone say something? :alcoholic:

This graph shows the electoral college score over time counting only those states where one candidate has a lead of at least 5%. The states where it is very close don't count here. With one exceptional period, it is possible to draw a pretty clear straight line through the middle of the blue line from mid-April until now. The exceptional period occurred in the last two weeks of September, when McCain got a small bounce from Palin's incendiary convention speech, which really fired up the base. However, when the bounce faded, as all convention bounces do, Obama continued on his upwards trajectory. If you compare 2008 to 2004 (on the Electoral coll. page) you see that this year looks completely different from that one. Other than a two-day blip on June 24-25, 2004, when Kerry briefly touched 300 EVs, neither candidate ever was even close to 270 EVs in the solid states although Kerry was above 270 counting the "barely states" until his Swift Boat was torpedoed. So what's with the nearly straight line upwards for Obama? Charlie Cook and many other nonpartisan experts have said that with 80% of the population saying the country is on the wrong track, this was going to be an election about Barack Obama. People clearly want change, but they were not yet sure if Obama was up to the job. After 18 months of campaigning and countless primary and general election debates, people are getting to know Obama and are beginning to feel he is a good man in a storm. His calm behavior during the bailout bill period--and McCain's erratic behavior--helped Obama a lot (see graph). Slowly but surely people are coming to believe he can do the job, and that's all he needed.

Probably just out of date.

A local T.V. anchor tries to ambush Biden. She basically asks if Obama is a marxist and then quotes Marx himself. Half way through the interview, Biden goes "Srsly1?!!?" Then the anchor parries with "But we'd be socialists... like Sweden."

"Kids, in the next chapter we're going to be studying creationism. We'll be throwing away the scientific method for this one, we'll come back to it in the chapter following."

I have no problem with creationism being taught in schools as long as it's in World Religions and not Biology. No matter your feelings on the subject, Creationism isn't Biology. I wouldn't expect to be taught Calculus functions in a 19th Century Literature class, so why should Creationism be taught in Biology?

Amazon.com and Overstock.com and Buy.com will all ship it for free if your order is large enough. Target will sometimes as well. With those three websites, there is pretty much nothing you can't buy instead of going to the big box. My goal this year is to do all of my holiday shopping online.