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Well, your reference failed to offer any statistics one way or the other about the US union labor content of Japanese vehicles, so my earlier, very specific refutation still stands. And you may 'think' its the unions who are to blame, but auto industry analysists, including those who have posted on the JAMA website, apparently don't agree. They claim that US protectionism, poor dealership relationships, and a lack of vehicles that the public might actually want to buy as the root of the problem, none of which have anything to do with unions whatsoever. I think your desire to blame unions dates back to Lee Ioccoca, when unions were much more powerful than they are today.

I'm not sure presenting your ass to the enemy sends the right message.

I learned a lot about quinces and poo this year, too.

I fale to see the humuor in that.

Most likely to suck Seahawk: Kevbone.

Best mother/daughter breast feeding team: DeCh + Kbone

best lactating man-boob suckler: Kevbone.

Whatever you do, go low altitude. The high desert in Utah is not warm in Feb.

I would like to see 'possessive' spelled correctly. How about an auto spell checker so idiots like me don't continually embarrass themselves even more than they do otherwise?

Your baby's supposed to learn language from you, not the other way around.

Jens, buddy, GM has consistently produced the most boring, lackluster fleet of cars and trucks on the planet. Talk about some UGLY vehicles! But the interiors? To hurl for! Besides, a JP auto made in the US uses a huge number of locally mfgd parts and, of course, all local labor. A lot of the purchase dollars stay right here. Whenever a US automaker runs into $$$ trouble it's never that management decided to produce cars no one wants and not produce cars that people do, it's always labor's fault. Blame the production line peon. As for GM specifically, they have the added burden of being a successful, long lived company, so their pensions are eating them alive. A nationwide retirement savings initiative, equally spreading that burden over all corporations, would relieve individual companies of that burden and effectively solve the problem but NOOOOOOOOOO, that would be too socialist. So its 'fuck you GM and all your current and former employees'. And as for the small town thing, well, a friend of mine just went on a Prius roadtrip all through rural eastern WA and OR, and they said the interest in their vehicle was HUGE. Especially when they told onlookers about the 50 mpg they were getting on average. As for bumper stickers, I've been all over this state and several others with a No Iraq War bumper sticker on my car and a War is Terrorism sticker on my motorcycle helmet, and the only place anyone ever gave me the thumbs down or any other negative indication was Pissaquah...hardly a small town. Ultimately, the planet doesn't really care whether city folk or country folk are driving fuel efficient vehicles, as long as the numbers are increasing. And remember, it was small towns and farms where the biofuels got their start a century ago (to power farm equipment).

Check out the UAW website. They've got a list of every car they make.

I'd be too stoopit to figure out the iPhone's UI. Treo looks more like a phone, but I wish they'd put a mechanical dialer on a Bakelite version so it looks even more like a phone.

Well, the world isn't so simple. Murdoch has pledged to make News Corp. carbon neutral, and has also pledged to find ways to reduce carbon emissions in every country his companies do business in, which is quite a few. Apparently, he's had a change of heart on the Global Warming issue. Walmart, partly due to it's involvment with the Clinton Foundation, is switching to green packaging while pushing energy efficient lighting and other 'middle class' products. The Clinton Foundation is also focused on improving healthcare in Africa. Does the fact that the Clintons work with the rich heads of large corporations for the common good make them dishonest? Are inefficient, slow moving government or poorly funded grass roots initiatives the only 'legitimate' ways to solve the world's problems? Why not got where the big money, efficient mindset, and global reach already are to achieve the same goals faster? Or is it impossible for a 'corporatist' to act altruistically? Is the Gates Foundations 30 BILLION dollars somehow too 'tainted' for use in combating the AIDS pandemic? Would abandoning their efforts to stay 'pure' be more moral?

I have no idea whose offspring it was. The hunchback brought it.

Jesus "Hey, somebody toss me a wonder bar!" Christ.

I was peering into the clogged dryer vent outlet yesterday before cleaning it out when my wife turned the damn thing on. I came out looking the same way.

I had sex with, roasted, and ate a human baby this morning. For Jesus.

Quantum enstanklement?

Don't bother ever invited me over for dinner.

Toyota makes its Corollas and Tacomas in the USA using union labor, so there goes that argument. Toyota will also sell about a quarter of a million Prius hybrids in the US in 2007. That might be a little closer to the mark as to why they're doing better than GM.

Consider yourself lucky. A woke up this morning to find the soft tissues of my face eaten away by rodents.

I'm off to injest some non-floridated malt beverage. Carry on with the investigation of rodential longevity, conspiracies, and home chemistry lessons.