StrangeSox

just curious greg, what do you imagine Hillary doing that would be so terrible?

Anyone have any experience with Volkswagen TDI's? It's about time to get rid of my current car and I'm thinking about a Jetta TDI.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 06:37 PM) I honest to god dont value statistics much shocking

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 04:42 PM) There's a lot going on there. The wooden bodies help make all aluminum chassis possible and their opinions on luxury are (at least to me) so refreshing to hear. That quote about the BMW engineer who said "I finally get to feel my engine" cracks me up. I dont mean to plug /Drive again, but is great for the SLS electric. If you really dont care much about the road testing stuff skip to 10:00, he talks to someone from Mercedes who just blows your mind repeatedly with the kind of technology behind the thing. The Ford GT had an aluminum spaceframe chassis a decade ago.

Thanks for blowing off your appointment, Nicor, and for your techs lying and saying the came and nobody answered.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 04:28 PM) Really? Hand-built wooden cars using off-the-shelf parts from other manufacturers doesn't scream new or innovative, even if they are cool/fun cars. Do you have any articles on that cool MB tech you were talking about a few pages back?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 04:20 PM) In the small circle you run around in perhaps. Hillary's approval ratings have been net-favorable basically since 2001, excluding the 2007-2008 primary season when Obama-supporting Democrats would have said they had an unfavorable view. Post-2009 she's been viewed as highly favorable. http://www.gallup.com/poll/162986/hillary-...s-slightly.aspx

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:07 PM) There's all sorts of incredible things happening around the auto industry Post them!

Not exactly innovative, though.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:37 PM) How ESPN Pulled A Bulls*** Colin Kaepernick Story Out Of Thin Air That is fantastic/ridiculous.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 12:57 PM) The NFL pressured ESPN to pull out of a project dealing with concussions, in case anyone wondered about ESPN's objectivity at all... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/sports/f...e&_r=1& Or in how much the NFL actually cares about player health beyond "the bare minimum to protect us legally." Frontline will still be moving ahead with the project. Their work is usually outstanding if not consistently depressing.

also I can't believe I'm talking about the 2016 elections, gonna go ahead and jump out of this thread for the next three years.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:26 PM) Duke you are missing the point. Their party is littered with clowns like that. I'm not saying Cruz and Rand fit the bill but when you have people in your party saying stupid s*** like that, it brings the whole base down, especially among independent voters. Remember how that one senator from MO said some stupid s*** about rape. Every republican tried to isolate themselves from that clown. (it wasn't just one senator, which is why this is such a problem for the GOP)

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:25 PM) 2. Part of the reason Obama won more thoroughly than many projected in 2013 is their very, very solid and even innovative technology usage was in their ground game strategy. Those tools were huge. Now, any Dem candidate will probably have similar resources at their disposal, which favors them. But, you can bet your ass the GOP will be looking to do something similar, and the gap will close to some extent. So keep an eye on GOP efforts in this arena (statistical analysis, etc.) to see how they may fare. I take issue with this. Several political scientists predicted very, very accurately using publicly available polls pretty darn close to exactly where Obama would win. It was the professional pundit class that kept insisting "it's a toss-up!" and completely dismissing what these people were saying because they get paid to talk about this and pretend they have special insight mixed with some of the crazier "Unskewed Polls" reality denial stuff. And, really, given how much some of the top pundits/political consultants were buying into the "Romney is going to win big!" stuff right up through election night, I don't know how much rigorous statistical analysis and introspection to expect. Now, absolutely, Obama had a much better technological game and there was a pretty informative post-mortem on how poorly Romney's organization did with that, and I think inevitably the GOP will get better on that regard, but I don't think it'll make much of a difference overall.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 01:15 PM) His problem with the Civil Rights Act was about government dictating the use of private property, which is a slippery slope. It's not a slippery slope for a majority of people including an overwhelming majority of non-whites. We're not talking about what is ideologically correct here but what it means for an election. Ron and Rand Paul will make whatever problems the GOP currently has with non-whites that much worse. No, Cruz is just an ideological nutjob (or he's very good at playing the part). In his short time in the Senate, he's accomplished nothing, proposed a bunch of crazy and pissed off basically everyone, but not in a good "power to the people!" populist way. Obama's approval rating is hovering around "meh." There's not some national outrage about him or his policies, and a non-negligible portion of the disapproval rating comes from leftists and liberals who are disappointed with his policies and administration. In fact, he just won a national election less than a year ago with a pretty comfortable margin. What old times and what people? The 90's? The 80's? I don't see much evidence that a majority of people view "rampant growth of government" as the cause for all of society's problems. In fact, we just had an election last year with a pretty mixed sitting President overseeing a very weak, years-long recovery running against two guys who wanted to slash countless government programs. They lost pretty thoroughly. Where is the evidence that people think our s***ty economy would be improved by Republicans? That Republicans would reduce the police state? I'm not arguing whether Paul's ideology would lead to neofeudalism if implemented or if Hillary or [insert generic Dem here] would have better policies right now. I'm trying to see what you're basing your idea that Paul and Cruz would be widely popular on, because right now it just looks like wishful thinking. I could say that a ticket of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would win a huge populist victory because people are sick of big banks and corporate greed etc. etc. etc. but I know there's just not that sort of support out there.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 12:50 PM) Not all of them, but with all the animosity that's been stirred up by the president and media following this Zimmerman s*** and the well documented propensity black kids have for violent crime you'd rather be safe than sorry. It isn't racist to say what I'm saying here at all. I'm simply taking the facts (7% of the US population commits a little over 50% of the murders), linking them to a very high profile current event and pointing out a pretty evident conclusion to be drawn. Duke "Racism doesn't exist" NukeEm, everybody!

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 12:55 PM) His father fled Cuba. Cuban ex-pats aren't really a good representation of the overall hispanic demographic.

Rand "We should get rid of the Civil Rights Act" Paul isn't going to go over very well with minorities. Ted "Bats*** Crazy" Cruz isn't going to go over well with anyone other than staunch conservatives, the same as Bachmann or Cain or any of that group. Why do you think there is growing sentiment for "the way things were," and what time period are you referring to there? Why do you think that, even if there's overall discontent with the way things are, a majority of voters are going to embrace the radical positions that Paul and Cruz have advocated? eta: Asians voted for Obama 73% in 2012, an increase from 2008. Even if Republicans aren't actively targeting Asians, they can see the way they treat other groups. eta2: I'm not saying that Republicans are completely doomed in 2016 no matter who the candidate is. I think HH could be right about Christie, though I do think their chances at the WH are much less than Congress.

CIA admits that it orchestrated the coup to topple the democratically elected president of Iran in 1953.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 11:20 AM) They'd take Michigan, Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina. That's enough to push them within striking distance, especially considering the rate at which Barack Obama f***s up and continually worsens the Democrat's chances in 2016. more seriously what on earth are you basing that on?

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 11:05 AM) Hillary is very intelligent but a backstabber. Bachmann is just ignorant. Not sure b**** is the right term for her but she's not somebody I want in charge nonetheless. Yes, Bachmann is more accurately described as crazy. Strong, assertive women are often called "b****es"

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Aug 23, 2013 -> 10:32 AM) I can think of at least 20 states they would run away with if the election happened tomorrow. About 15 more they would stand no chance in and a remaining 15 that would swing the election. Kinda like the last 20 years worth of presidential elections. They would get smashed pretty much everywhere outside of the deep south and the rural upper midwest. eta: "make Reagan v Mondale look close" was obvious hyperbole given that Mondale only took one state. But it'd make last year's election look like a nail-bitter.

SCE looking for approval to charge ratepayers for the capital investment plus a healthy 5.5% profit they made into the failed upgrades at SONGS that ultimately led to the plant being shut down permanently. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hilt...,2146386.column

Why are we assuming Rose wasn't using some form of PEDs? Wasn't the use of amphetamines/coke pretty common back then?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 22, 2013 -> 08:03 PM) Zimmerman was only arrested after months of public outcry and after the DA was replaced. The public demanded an investigation in the first place which the local law enforcement refused to do. This was also well after the President was asked about the case. So as soon as the police drop te charges here, you will have a point. That's what's so annoying about all of these "OMG! Why isn't this a national story!?" facebook posts. The people posting them obviously still do not get, at all, why there was so much frustration and anger at the start of the TM saga and why these other stories aren't similar.