tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post3591309010139657766..comments2024-03-29T05:30:32.626-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Does the Government investment in the car industry make sense?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46467797264838935242009-06-03T02:08:34.806-04:002009-06-03T02:08:34.806-04:00Air France jet departing Buenos Aires for Paris 5 ...Air France jet departing Buenos Aires for Paris 5 days before crash received bomb threat.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72153129767814128932009-06-03T01:59:39.033-04:002009-06-03T01:59:39.033-04:00White House 'dialogue' site
scrubbed of el...<i>White House 'dialogue' site<br />scrubbed of eligibility posts <br /><br /><br />Many Obama birth certificate queries<br />yanked from 'transparency' debate </i>--<br />-/<br /><br />WorldNetDaily<br />-------------------------<br /><br />Mark Levin just made a good turn of phrase. Obama is on the second leg of the apology tour, this leg called <i>a grovelpalooza.</i>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58480746870421907132009-06-03T01:50:27.142-04:002009-06-03T01:50:27.142-04:00Leahy quoted Sotomayor as saying, "There'...<i>Leahy quoted Sotomayor as saying, "There's not one law for one race or another. There's not one law for one color or another. There's not one law for rich, a different one for poor. There's only one law."<br /><br />The White House, choreographing Sotomayor's interactions with the Senate, called the first meetings productive.<br /><br />"We believe that she will get a fair shake and a fair set of hearings," presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said. At the same time, he said she should be confirmed before the August break.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090603/APW/906030534" rel="nofollow">Bias Claims</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47693516800818329222009-06-03T01:25:29.754-04:002009-06-03T01:25:29.754-04:00Swedenborgian Alert!
Some pyschology professor in...Swedenborgian Alert!<br /><br />Some pyschology professor in England is running a twitter psychic/remote viewing experiment.<br /><br />Each day next week, he'll be going to an undisclosed location in London for a half hour or so, at a set time of day, and sit there and concentrate on the scenery.<br /><br />Then he will go to his office and post 5 pictures of local scenes on twitter, 1 of which is the correct scene.<br /><br />All psychictwitterites will be concentrating mightily during his half hour on location, then, viewing his options, will vote their choice.<br /><br />After the experiment is over, the professor will do the calculations to see if the results beat whatever the random outcome should be.<br /><br />I'm betting, if I'm able to follow this up, that the results will be a little above the statistical probablity in such a case.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28030552785394830692009-06-03T00:50:08.994-04:002009-06-03T00:50:08.994-04:00youtube clip
Sotomayor Says, er, I Shouldn't...youtube clip<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfC99LrrM2Q" rel="nofollow">Sotomayor Says, er, I Shouldn't Be Saying This, But, er, We Make Law, hahahaha, jokejoke, chuckle,chuckle</a>Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4345431426070680102009-06-03T00:36:09.857-04:002009-06-03T00:36:09.857-04:0054+19 = 73.
73% of the American people are either...54+19 = 73.<br /><br />73% of the American people are either basically traitorous to the Constitution, or have no idea what judges are <i>supposed</i> to do, or both.<br /><br />JUdges aren't <i>supposed</i> to be making laws.<br /><br />But in the last 50 years when has that stopped them?<br /><br />Not often.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71745192767531336672009-06-03T00:31:13.402-04:002009-06-03T00:31:13.402-04:00Did the Air France flight go down because of light...Did the Air France flight go down because of lightning, or a bomb? Nobody seems to know what really happened yet.<br /><br />I want to know what happened with that Continental air cargo flight in Texas. Dodging a ground-to-air missile?<br /><br />Sure sounds like it.<br /><br />Smuggled in up from Mexico?<br /><br />Would be another of the innumerable benefits of the open borders.<br /><br />You're cruising along at 13,000 feet and a surface-to-air missile scoots under your wing.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65701136256203599922009-06-03T00:18:01.280-04:002009-06-03T00:18:01.280-04:00Gallup: 54% Approve of Sotomayor Nomination
A n...<i>Gallup: 54% Approve of Sotomayor Nomination<br /><br /><br /> A new USA Today/Gallup poll finds Americans' initial support for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor "similar to what Gallup initially found for past nominees who were confirmed by the Senate, including Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Samuel Alito. Americans were slightly more positive toward John Roberts' nomination."<br /><br />For Sotomayor, 54% approve of her nomination, while 24% are not in favor of it and 19% have no opinion.<br /></i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-30881564172392945482009-06-02T22:18:52.780-04:002009-06-02T22:18:52.780-04:00The Australian dollar slipped 0.3 percent to $0.81...<i> The Australian dollar slipped 0.3 percent to $0.8185 after jumping to an eight-month high of $0.8232, Reuters data shows.<br /><br />Australian first-quarter growth data is due at 0130 GMT. Analysts expect the economy escaped a recession, at least technically, by growing 0.2 percent in the quarter, helped mainly by a jump in net exports.<br /><br />Sterling edged down 0.2 percent to $1.6562. It hit a seven-month high of $1.6595 the previous day, according to Reuters data.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=821174" rel="nofollow">Appetite Grows</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-24747235686396796582009-06-02T22:17:46.788-04:002009-06-02T22:17:46.788-04:00bobal said:
They're going into the nuclear bom...bobal said:<br /><i>They're going into the nuclear bomb business unless Israel stops them...</i><br /><br />That's the bottom line.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2363279970443843202009-06-02T22:09:31.088-04:002009-06-02T22:09:31.088-04:00Well, it appears they've managed to shed a bun...Well, it appears they've managed to shed a bunch of their debt and get a capital injection complete with new board members (US Federals with a token Canadian Federal and Union boyz) but the legacy costs linger as does the corporate culture. Somehow I doubt the new owners will usher in innovative forward looking exciting car stuff slashing costs and blazing new frontiers of corporate management and car design.Ashhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16688752302081088907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2084162515033020682009-06-02T21:19:09.920-04:002009-06-02T21:19:09.920-04:00After some thought, ash, and the lack of any other...After some thought, ash, and the lack of any other topic, the Legacy Costs of the Big Three, the anchor to their competitiveness, could have been made the proto-type of a national health care and pension guarentee program.<br /><br />Or just a one off, it would have been less expensive to pick up those liabilities than the path to bankruptcy and Federal ownership of GM that was chosen and ... less intrusive.<br /><br />GM still had healthy factories, trademarks and dealers. Still was selling as many vehicles annually as Toyota. <br /><br />They needed a scalpel to cut away some of the fat. A little liposuction. <br />Instead we get a fad diet, at five star spa prices.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48475834463567178822009-06-02T21:07:01.010-04:002009-06-02T21:07:01.010-04:00Obama's push previews the long-awaited Cairo s...<i>Obama's push previews the long-awaited Cairo speech, which Obama aides hoped would start to repair badly frayed relationships between the United States and Muslims and their nations and which Israeli officials planned to watch for clues as to Washington's next steps. Opinions of the United States run negative in Muslim capitals, fueled by the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and its longtime support of Israel.<br /><br />Ahead of the speech, Obama has told interviewers he is committed to an independent Palestinian state but has not shied from the United States' deep ties to Israel. Obama's advisers hope that stance would position him to be an honest broker for both sides, particularly over settlements that were supposed to be halted under the peace plan.<br /><br />The Israeli government has moved to dismantle some small settler outposts that were established without government approval. But Netanyahu has refused to accept a complete end, as Obama has insisted.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8538231" rel="nofollow">Defense Minister</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-74699976536600050362009-06-02T20:10:11.172-04:002009-06-02T20:10:11.172-04:00Process and power, those are the drivers, for Obam...Process and power, those are the drivers, for Obama.<br /><br />Based on obsevations to datedesert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14096240881836069052009-06-02T20:05:26.461-04:002009-06-02T20:05:26.461-04:00The fast start, because he has a long range plan, ...The fast start, because he has a long range plan, multiple steps and levels. Be my guess.<br /><br />He's going to accelerate the process. He is all about process, remember it is what got him his Party's nomination.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82772425521275114822009-06-02T20:05:10.959-04:002009-06-02T20:05:10.959-04:00It's a Whoopsi Totem.It's a Whoopsi Totem.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29914139615424642002009-06-02T20:03:56.622-04:002009-06-02T20:03:56.622-04:00"That's the next test of US policy. Was US policy ..."<I>That's the next test of US policy. Was US policy to support the Cedar Revolution, in Feb 2005 a success, or not? <br />GW Bush's whole second term.</I>"<br />---<br />The De-Hated Decider-Boy couldn't stand up to Condi.<br />...and Powell and the Fat Headed One Neutered Cheney/Liddy.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83236409420479642802009-06-02T20:03:39.282-04:002009-06-02T20:03:39.282-04:00...If President Obama can turn that around, with a...<EM>...If President Obama can turn that around, with a speech three days prior, a June Surprise. Well, that'd be something</EM>...<br /><br />Sure would be. <br /><br />That day the pig's would be flyin' for sure.linearthinkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201292791445921817noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-88069959790598282112009-06-02T20:02:55.184-04:002009-06-02T20:02:55.184-04:00At first I thought it was a whoopie cushion, the t...At first I thought it was a whoopie cushion, the tootinobama.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-26568333964801787842009-06-02T20:00:06.739-04:002009-06-02T20:00:06.739-04:00Tootinobaman?<A HREF="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20090601/i/r3850659215.jpg" REL="nofollow">Tootinobaman</A>?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14605666443193121052009-06-02T19:58:30.482-04:002009-06-02T19:58:30.482-04:00The Swine Flu, already.
The external intervention...The Swine Flu, already.<br /><br />The external intervention would be long term, that's a given.<br /><br />Obama is pressing, most Presidents wait until year 8 to try the MidEast on for size, but not Obama. 120 days in, he is firing on all eight.<br /><br />For better or worse, he ain't half-steppin'. Pressure the Afpaks with six stars and press the Israeli government to honor their past promises.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89602922129508619122009-06-02T19:53:36.178-04:002009-06-02T19:53:36.178-04:00There are 182 F22s to stop them, bob. But I doubt,...There are 182 F22s to stop them, bob. But I doubt, hope, that they'd all not have to be deployeed.<br /><br />If that is in the National Interest of the US, as decided by the President.<br /><br />Let's wait for his Cairo speech, and where he gives it. Then see if it impacts the Lebanese elections.<br /><br />That's the next test of US policy. Was US policy to support the Cedar Revolution, in Feb 2005 a success, or not? <br />GW Bush's whole second term.<br /><br />wi"o" and others have said that Hezzbollah will win he election, in Lebanon. That would represent a poor showing for US policy. If President Obama can turn that around, with a speech three days prior, a June Surprise. Well, that'd be something.<br /><br />If not, Mr Bush and Condi's plan became for transforming the region becomes a crapper.<br /><br />In any case, Obama's gonna turn the screws on Israel, whether or not Bibi is the tougher man, looking stern while the President appears like a happy lad.<br /><br />Despite the differences in their educations and backgrounds. One has the power of the United States at his command and the other guy, well he does not.<br /><br />They were not arm wrestlin' across the Resolute desk.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60814065115695444002009-06-02T19:53:34.389-04:002009-06-02T19:53:34.389-04:00Tue Jun 02, 07:04:00 PM EDT
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So nuclear means pea...Tue Jun 02, 07:04:00 PM EDT<br />-<br />So nuclear means peaceful uses, <br />nucular refers to weapons.<br /><br />I always wondered about that.<br />Thanks.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41490462180570307532009-06-02T19:37:11.421-04:002009-06-02T19:37:11.421-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39264288070962521672009-06-02T19:33:15.933-04:002009-06-02T19:33:15.933-04:00Was reading an article last night about how to con...Was reading an article last night about how to control l'le Kim. Suggestion was have the Japanese announce they are nuking up until the l'le Kim threat goes away, at which point they will nuke back down. Since the Chinese don't want a nuclear Japan, this should do the trick, the author thought.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.com