Satty

Not those balls, pervs. I'm talking sports, as in I'm in a funk because there are no worthwhile sports this time of year. The NFL is a bunch of whiny, overpayed jackasses, and the games aren't really that exciting. College football is dead to me since Mizzou cant seem to beat a halfway decent team. The NBA is worthless, the only good part of the game is the last two minutes, since just about every game is close, but then there are timeouts after every play. I cant watch a basketball game when it goes to commercial every thirty seconds. College basketball doesn't interest me because all the best players are already in the NBA, plus neither Mizzou nor Missouri State is very good. And then you have hockey, which is just toothless guys playing soccer on ice. Wooooo! I guess I'll just have to watch Dominican baseball on ESPN Deportes until Spring Training. I will say this about the NFL, they always have the best criminals. You never hear about NBA or MLB players shooting themselves in the leg at a night club.

+1 The few times I've driven a Cooper, I've never done anything uber-crazy.

haberdasher

If I were to buy one of these three, it would be the Mercedes. Nothing against the CTS, I just love the looks of the new C-class.

lardass

Sweet, I'm up to 79808. I just bought a Cardinals ticket plan just so I could go to 3 Cubs-Cardinals games next year.

I view religion the same way I view everything else, that is, in relation to everything else. I see no way any single religion, as interpreted by man, can be "right" because many of them have similar structures but are wildly different in detail. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

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No more ridiculous than religion itself.

Americans are as resilient a bunch as this world has ever seen. We're going to have it rough for a while, but you just have to look at history. The parallels to the late-20's are there and I think we're going to government fund our way out of this the same way we did it out of the Depression. Instead of increased arms productions (first for Lend-Lease, then for American use in the War) this time its going to be energy independence (possibly leading to the U.S. becoming an energy exporter) that does it.

Rumor has it Santa is getting me a digital camcorder for Christmas. Just what I need to finally start filming the damned movie I wrote.

The Genesis coupe is looking liek it will be an impressive little machine, even if they dont offer the V8.

CNN said a little while ago that Pelosi was willing to go with the White House plan of using the Green Tech funds for the bailout. That would amount to a bridge loan, but I hope the government keeps on top of the Big 3 (and gets on top of imports) in regards to green tech. Not just cars, but production facilities, transportation, the whole thing. I've said it before, carbon tariffs on imported vehicles (based on the countries they're built in) could help the domestics in many ways.

FOG--Obama has had a Green Collar Jobs initiative laid out for quite some time, given the political capital he has, I wouldn't be shocked if its one of the first things passed and Congress fast tracks money for wind/solar/hydrogen projects. Camino--Yes, we live in a frightening time, it seems as if everything possible is going wrong at the same time, but I really believe we're going to come through stronger, smarter and better.

Very true, but increased economic stress will only make it worse. If the value of oil can hold at about $50/barrel for 5 years or so, until we at least get the beginnings of a new domestic-sourced power grid, we'll be in much better shape as far as national security is concerned. It would be very tough for the U.S. to defend domestic and international interests if it doesn't have any oil. Venezuela (which I failed to mention in my last post) is an even bigger wild card, because their country is all ready all sorts of messed up, yet they're our 3rd largest source of foreign oil.

When we do get serious about energy independance (and I have a feeling that will be a huge part of the next administration) it will still be a few years before we can really tell the oil producing world to go f@#k itself. But when that day comes, and I have a feeling it will come in my lifetime, I'll be the happiest person alive. But I really do think destabilization in the middle east, and Russia and Venezuela will directly lead to attacks on American interests, just because there will always be the extremists who blame everything on us. China gets oil from Iran. We get useless crap from China. If Americans cant buy Chinese crap, China doesn't buy Iranian oil, Iran's economy slips, Ahmadinejad blames it all on America, Islamic extremists become more motivated to take down "the great evil."

You dont see a downside to brutal leaders like Putin, Ahmadinejad and Chavez being able to say, "Our people cant make money because of American incompetance"? Anti-American sentiment could grow even more worldwide if nations we haven't yet ruined become wastelands, which will lead to attacks on American interests and possibly America itself.

Check Craigslist and local computer places, you can probably find a used laptop for the same price as a netbook. I found a pretty good one around here for $320.

There is a huge downside to oil prices tumbling. If the economies in oil producing countries collapse and we have another oil shortage because we cant get any shipped, we dont have the infastructure in place to weather a long term major energy crisis.

I'm becoming more and more sure Congress is going to pass a bridge loan that will tide the companies over until the new Congress is sworn in and can do something big that the next administration will pass.

lolcat Bible FTW

I started looking into them when my desktop went down, but gave up after a bit. They seem like a great deal if all you really need to do is email and websurf. Most of the ones I looked at wouldn't run videos from the likes of Youtube (as well as Youporn, I assume) so it all depends on what you're going to do with it.

Mitsu ahead of Honda...hahahahaha...man I need some of whtever you're smoking. Even when the Galant was brand-new (2004) it wasn't better than the previous gen ('98-02) Accord, which is probably why the Galant didn't, and still doesn't, sell at all.

Maybe they're going to focus on a real motorsport, like Nascar.

Nascar sucks