Ford didn't rig the Audi, the 'consultant' did. The vast majority of the unintended acceleration cases are driver error- stepped on the wrong damn pedal. The Chevy pickup case was NBC, not CBS.
Note that I distrust mass media as much or more than the next guy, but if you are going to accuse them, get your facts straight.
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It's a bitch when emergency responders have a bad string.
The House has been Democratic for the last two years, the Senate for the last four.
Yeah but like many of the old crappers, it only partially flushed and a lot of stinky crap still remains. It needs a second flush to complete the job.
As to more terrorists - you may be right. One great worthy once said "The penis is mighter than the sword," by which he meant your enemy can reproduce faster than you can kill them. Still, maybe we're just giving otherwise unemployed terrorists something to do - they were always there, just bored.
Still, the goal is not to eliminate terror, it's to kill terrorists.
Concealed handguns an insanity? The conflict is between those who are afraid of criminals vs. those who are afraid of guns. For the anti's, it's an emotional issue. For the pro-gun side, it's just common sense ("is your fire extinguisher LOADED?"). There are 48 states that have some sort of concealed handgun license (Illinois, Wisconsin, and D.C. are the outliers). At no time has ANY state, once it liberalized its concealed carry laws, reverted to a more strict policy. Concealed handguns WORK - we are killing goblins right and left.
Further, Barak Obama (PBUH) has often stated that gun laws should follow the customs of the local community. How better than to have the gun laws of the state in which a National Park is located govern? Taking Him (PBUH) at his word, I fully expect federal regulations prohibiting guns in federal institutions (post offices, Veteran's hospitals, Social Security offices, etc.), to fall to the same common-sense approach.
As for seeing the economic growth today, well, 72 consecutive months of economic growth ain't nuthin' to sneeze at. Then the Democrats took control of Congress. In a mere 18 months, they managed to f*ck it up beyond the abilities of mere mortals to comprehend.
No, I don't believe every story they put out is a fake but if I can't trust every story to be factual and accurate then I simply can't trust any of them. The unfortunate thing is that all of our media has fallen into the same trap of being more concerned about ratings than about their responsibility to protect the public trust.
First, I didn't say Ford did it, I said that Ford was the sponsor. Who actually rigged the Audi isn't important, the 60 Minutes staff was totally aware of it and put the story on anyway. Not only did they do it once, they repeated the story even after it was brought out that it was rigged. So get your own facts straight. I also know that they are not alone is doing such underhanded reporting, they are all guilty.
bush wanting ONLY YES MEN fired the joint chiefs member:(
Incidently obama hired him as a member of his new adminstration
aemeijers wrote in news:ZE88l.110416$ snipped-for-privacy@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net:
I'd probably give up Internet if I had to go back
I'm still on it. It does what I need it to. While I'd love to have faster speed, right now it's a matter of a want, rather than a need.
I've been on the 'net since the mid-80s,
I finally did get DH to cancel most of the subscription channels for Direct TV and he admits he doesn't miss it at all. We now use Netflix for most, if not all, of our movie watching. And in the last two weeks I've read six novels from the library as well as played offline RPG's on the pc. Throw in cooking and quilting and I've been plenty entertained without tv.
Per Too_Many_Tools:
What *really* burns me about all this is that the guys making policy decisions' lifestyles won't be affected one bit by however much inflation they unleash.
Per Too_Many_Tools:
Has anybody else seen the web page where somebody (obviously with an agenda...) put up videos of Dubya speaking as governor of Texas and then, some years later, as president?
The punch line was something like "What has happened to this guy?"
The differences in cadence, enunciation and other things I can't articulate were quite obvious.
You keep repeating that but since you and Rush Limbaw only seem to know what they did why not spill the beans and make them look really bad? How about the real dirt on what they did in those 18 months?
What makes you think it is ever GONNA be paid back? Just like with a loan shark or payday loan storefront, the feds will just keep rolling it over. The Chinese and the House of Saud have little choice in loaning the money- if the US economy flat-out collapses, they lose their best customer. And if their house-of-cards economies collapse, the ruling classes over there will have to find deep holes to hide in.
Another few years of this, and we will have had a de facto 1 for 10 dollar devaluation in my lifetime.
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Shinseki - nominated as Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
What difference does it make whether or what they did? They were in charge, therefore they get the blame.
Inasmuch as the economy's in the ditch, it's obvious they DIDN'T do anything (enough?) to mitigate the disaster.
Frankly, I'm at a loss. Used to be, Republican scandals were concentrated above the neck and Democrat scandals were centered below the belt. Now, what with Larry Craig tap-dancing in the men's room and Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Rod Blago, and others fiddling with the money and power, it seems as if the emphasis has shifted.
You overlooked the Dan Rather fiasco.
Which one, the one he got fired for or the one which vaulted him into the national limelight to begin with? Rather got his big break onto the national scene when he reported on race riots in Houston in the late 60's. Race riots which were paid for by the media in Houston. I was there helping my cousin lug the camera gear around and setup to film the riots. I saw the money exchange hands and Rather among others were there and witnessed and/or participated in the exchange. I never watched anything Dan Rather was a part of following that time. If anyone thinks that the news media is any less corrupt than any other organization, they are living in a vacuum.
"BobR" wrote
No, I don't believe every story they put out is a fake but if I can't trust every story to be factual and accurate then I simply can't trust any of them. The unfortunate thing is that all of our media has fallen into the same trap of being more concerned about ratings than about their responsibility to protect the public trust.
It is definitely not what, when, where, why, and how any more. They were shameful in the Lacey Peterson case, as well as Caylee Anthony, and hundreds of others. Why do strains of Don Henley's "Dirty Laundry" come to mind?
Steve
I used to live in Houston and was very active in the Republican Party. I attended a number of county and state party conventions over the years and always marveled at the local news reports on the conventions. I never could identify what the news reports were saying to the actual events that took place even though I was totally involved in all of the activity. It was amazing that they could fabricate major events out of nothing. In other cases, I have been directly involved in events that I couldn't even recognize based on the news reports that followed them.
There is an old saying that I can't totally recall but it goes something like...Believe only about 90% of what you see and 10% of what you read. That should be modified to say "and 10% of what you read or see on TV." I recently read a major report in a local paper that because of personal knowledge I knew to be so totally biased as to almost qualify as fiction. It wasn't so much that they reported lies but that they reported half truths and then drew conclusions leaving out everthing that didn't fit with their conclusions.
"SteveB" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.infowest.com:
don't forget the faked GWBush papers.
60 Minutes and CBS simply cannot be trusted.HomeOwnersHub website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.