Drew Dowdell

Hood windows. Jalopnik First it was the Toyota Altezza lighting the world on fire with the clear tail light craze, then came Buick, igniting the love triangle between Pep-Boys, 17-year-olds, and stick on fender vents, now it's the Corvette ZR1 and its hood window kicking off a new trend. Hillbank Motorsports has created a hood with a window in it for the 2005-2009 Ford Mustang which will let you show off that stonkin' V6 with NOS and dress up pulleys. Of course, if you're sporting a supercharged monster mill, it'll work there too, but lets be honest about who goes after this kind of thing. Expect hood windows for Civics, third generation 'Tegs, and mid-90s Accords in short order.

It's as if the last two weeks never happened.....

Ah yes, how I long for the glory days of Pontiac when all of it's cars were performance cars..... Did you know that Landau was French for Nurburgring? This Pontiac is so teh sex.... it's got wood. I mean... man... look a the stripes on this one... you'll have to fight the chicks off when driving this one.. Two generations of Sunbird pavement shredding driving excitement.... Pontiac sportiness the whole family can enjoy Race inspired It's got a "fast back" because it's fast damnit!! CanadiaSport CanadiaSportUte What? Linebackers play sports too....! Musn't forget off road sportiness Red plastic wheel covers for the win

What is the Riviera platform?

i wish my lawn was emo so it would cut itself.

I didn't realize McCain had a house in Ohio... did he invite the town over for a BBQ on the south lawn of the estate? What issues did he discuss? How about the one where the economy is fundamentally sound? Did he fiddle while AIG burned? I heard that Phill Gramm, the McCain campaign's financial issues adviser, the one who wrote the legislation that made this whole Lehman/Merrill/AIG/WaMu mess possible was going to speak also... but he was suddenly called away on account of rain.

Barack Obama, on the stump today.

Palin answers her first unregulated press question (from Andrew Sullivan) Actual answer: Got that? Deference, please. And no laughing in the back!

Stick a fork in 'em, WaMu is done.

Not only did we not ignore it, we passed a law to make it illegal. We were scared of terrorists getting fissionable material. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the process was developed by Westinghouse.

We don't need to steal their nuclear fuel recycling abilities.... who do you think came up with it in the first place?

Without even having to look up the charts, I can extrapolate from your statement that currency supply was about $2 trillion dollars at the beginning of Clinton's term (seems low, but we'll work with it). Now, rather than looking at percentages, look at total dollar amounts. Currency increased by $2 trillion dollars under Clinton and $4 trillion under Bush, that's twice as much in the same amount of time. But that's just currency. Starting under Clinton, but really took off under Bush, the credit market exploded. You couldn't let your dog run loose for fear it would come home with a mortgage. Mortgage companies were letting you borrow up to 125% of the value of your home and then make only interest payments. Astonishingly, there are auto lenders that would let you have a loan at 125% of the value of your car.... a depreciating asset!! All of this was "made up" money. It didn't exist, yet companies and individuals got to book it as income. The government taxed that income. This is where the government's increased tax revenue came from..... NOT Bush's tax cuts.

Wholesale gas prices down another nickel to 2.40 a gallon

Ricer, if you've the the centrifuge, I have the uranium! :thumbsup:

Where do you sign up for the RNC talking points email distribution? I can just have it autopost here and save you the time.

Privatizing the profits and socializing the losses.

WaMu has FDIC Insured deposits of $140 billion...... the FDIC has $33 billion in assets........

I would suggest you use this tool to determine if you want to move your funds and where to move them to. I would be especially watchful of WaMu and Wachovia right now.

Some government intervention is fine and necessary. Government intervention for the greed or in the case of stupidity is bad. Mark my words, the only smart thing Clinton did in economic policy was raise taxes during an economic upswing. Everything else was to service the financial elite. Bush 43 has continued this "tradition".

If the judges stuck to what the constitution states, we'd still have slavery. I'm not going to get into an abortion debate, but it's unlikely that Obama could change the over all make up of the court. The next justices to retire are the liberal ones anyway.

John McCain is running against a black man with a middle eastern sounding name and it's still a struggle for him. What does that say about McCain? John Kerry came close to unseating a popular, wartime President. 2004 wasn't the miracle for Bush you think it was. John McCain used to be known for his straight talk... no bs. Now he has resorted to massive, blatant lying... doing anything he can, saying anything he can, to get the Whitehouse.

Many of the largest companies, especially those in finance, won't be paying taxes for some time regardless of if Obama raises the corporate tax.

Bank deregulation, more specifically the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act (loose money policy) Low interest rate, asked for by Clinton, provided by Greenspan (loose money policy) Raised taxes and the minimum wage (not sure which side you're arguing with on this one) Where I'm going with this is, the financial changes made under Clinton and Bush 41 bubbled up, boiled over, and exploded in Bush 43's face. Bush wasn't the cause of the fire, but he's done nothing but add gasoline, with the help of Greenspan, Bernake, and Paulson.

It may work in theory, but we have 80 years of history of it NOT working. Only JFK's tax cut for the rich did anything and because that bracket was at an absurd +90% rate. The crisis we're in right now is one of solvency. Rich people are solvent, poor and middle class people are not. Cutting making sure Paris Hilton's taxes stay low is not going to help the economy in any way. edit: And I have to say thank you... how refreshing it is to debate someone one this in a rational and thought out manner.