I don t watch south park. once they got the guy to kill his mom and then eat her in a bowl of chili I was done with south park
Gee Wes, that sounds like something I could support to lower our energy needs. Instead, we could be using all, decomposing life forms to fuel our future needs. Oops I guess that’s what we are doing now.
This is for you Wes…one of my favorite Mark K songs about cannibalism.
@Bing, we should always look for unbiased sources of information if they are available and we can figure out how to find them. Unbiased sources don’t get their funding from someone with a point to prove. That is the first thing I look for when someone discusses their hypothesis.
I guess I have missed quite a few episoded @wes. The plots usually don’t keep my attention long. But the script is often very critical of various political and cultural trends. It can be entertaining for a few minutes. But then so can Rush. For a very short few minutes.
all sources are biased. I think the key is to read all sources and make our own decisions.
I even listen to rush limpaws for at least 30 seconds a week, Sharpton too. well 20 seconds anyway, sometimes 10…
thanks dag, I wish my ears were better.
unfortunately pygmies are still consumed if they don t bring home enough meat for the local warlords in some parts of Africa.
nothing ticks me off like a dirty low down pygmy eater
I think my soylent green is burning, gotta go…
Hi there - could you please bring this one back around to cars? Thanks.
Unsure why when gas prices drop the stock market drops also, I mean they have a per gallon markup for gas…
CD, what s eating you?
Well let me tell you folks. I was in a rush looking for a parking spot to get to the Antidisestablishmentarianism rally today and squeezed my pickup in between two G63s and chipped the paint on one opening my door. I left a phony note under the wiper to make the witnesses think that I was giving the owner my name and address. But then I had to leave and totally missed the rally. What now? Of course the damaged MB was in a disabled spot with no tag so he was technically in the wrong. I should have had that SUV towed. Of course the wrecker would have drug the truck up the roll back dragging the wheel and possibly damaging the drive train. I wonder if the G63 has a torque splitter? Is the automatic transmission standard on that model? I should have attended the rally and left the owner a $20 to repair his door, donchathink.
And on the way home I filled up the old pickup and it only got 16 mpg this time. That’s the pits. Of course the $1.89/gallon price was a relief.
The firing order on my Ford 4.9L is 1-5-3-6-2-4. I wonder what the firing order is on that G63. And was it leased? I paid $1500 cash for my pickup. And it only has 185,000 miles on it now.
I would love to go to the longest word in the dictionary rally, Let me know when the next one is, as far as the rest of the post, I cannot condone your actions, though givin my door dings a fake note is better than no note I suppose. As long as we are talking stupid things, daughter called me, tried to short cut through a snow covered parking lot and got hung up on a concrete wheel stop. She saw another trail, but could not follow in the same fashion. Thank goodness the saturn had a tow hook, hooked up the chain,put it in 4lo and pulled her backwards over the bumper, then I was thinking I never told her to put it intro neutral, oh well, all is well that ends well. Now if I had a smart car that would not be an option to pull her out so lovin the trailblazer 16 city and 22 hwy is not killing me.
You boys stay out of trouble going to those rallies. As for me I finally figured out that I am the establishment I protested against.
We were at a water park in Wisconsin Dells and came out and my passenger side front door was all smashed in. There was a confession note left because this was Wisconsin even if it was close to Chicago. I don’t know how she did that in a parking lot with angled parking but it was pushed in pretty bad. I just got an estimate and had no problem getting the money from her insurance company to fix the door.
When good things happen to bad people? humble joke @Bing
we should always look for unbiased sources of information if they are available and we can figure out how to find them. Unbiased sources don't get their funding from someone with a point to prove.Funny...I know somebody who made a point of saying, "Always look for biased sources of information...at least then you know where they're coming from!"
Obviously this is overstated for effect, but there’s a fair amount of truth to it. Look at HOW MANY breaking stories ultimately get sourced from partisan special interest sites. Who was the first with the Snowden stuff? A bit of familiarity will tell you who is pretty honest with the facts (despite being a cheerleader)…and who just makes cr4p up. And, as stated, with a biased source, the bias is generally a known factor. When the NYT runs with a story…any bias/lack thereof is rather harder to figure out!
Granted, there’s a “signal:noise” issue occasionally with partisans, but if you ONLY get info from putative “unbiased” sources…especially the Goliaths of the industry…you’re getting all your news “pre-filtered.” Who’s to say the filter employed is the right one? (Or even, the right one for you?)
@meanjoe75fan I feel we are on the same page, difficult as it may be, somebody standing up is like the Chinese saying, is the next to get pounded down. The pendulim swings from one side to the other but we are getting closer to let them eat cake every day.
Forgive me but I was trying to get it back to have something to do with cars as requested by our host. I don’t think there’s enough bandwidth to change someones world view here.
Remember we have no general or political discussion thread here,I think a lot of these (flush with oil)people will be reconsidering the big vehicle purchase when gas goes up again Ol Mother Gaia aint making anymore,when its gone its gone(oil)the same thinking destroyed the Passenger Pigeon,so if these car manus really wanted to,they could take the lessons learned with aerodynamics on these big lead sleds and make smaller vehicles capable of mid 20s mileage(no more flatfronts and bubble cars)
In the early 1970’s oil crisis there was a wide spread story that there wasn’t enough oil left in the ground to last even 20 years and the Big 3 slammed efforts to control polution because those efforts would result in vastly greater fuel consumption from cars.
I’m not sure that anyone can be believed these days. Profits comes before everything. We are just target markets. But there does seem to be a much better result from wiser use of resources and wiser care of the environment than the alternative that is popular in some circles.
I dunno if profits come before anything else like life, limb, and liberty, but lets face it, without profits none of us gets paid. Without being paid, we’re back to pioneer days. I was talking to my BIL’s dad tonight and he talked about spending 1931 and 32 in a sod hut in South Dakota. He said it wasn’t too bad but I don’t think any of us would choose that.
The profit motive for seperating the winners and losers is certainly a much better approach than government edict @Bing. But when profits become the Holy Grail and accumulating wealth becomes an end that justifies all means can we really expect to see any real progress in our greater ecomony or just a few big winners.