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|1.24.06 @ 10:46AM|#
I think the "line line line" rhyme scheme constitutes cheating, kinda like dropping the same curse word at the end of consecutive lines of a rap. Can making up a word and desperately hoping it gains street cred be far behind?
|1.24.06 @ 10:52AM|#
And a radical idea to solve the dealer overhang? Cut them loose and partner with Wal-Mart. Some car company is going to do it sooner or later and make a killing. Probably the Chinese.
I thought that some of Wal-Mart's suppliers were upset that with the company's size comes the bargaining power to pay lower prices than other retailers. If so, then the last thing Detroit needs is to receive even less profit per car shipped.
Maybe Detroit should try something radical, like competing on quality rather than making their money off replacement parts when their cars break down.
|1.24.06 @ 10:54AM|#
"...he says that if the Bush administration's wiretapping operation had been in place pre-9/11, al Qaida operatives in the U.S. would've been identified."
Yeah, and 9/11 could also have been prevented had we simply stuffed all the brownskins into gas chambers. What the hell's his point? Whether or not a particular action might have prevented a past tragedy speaks nothing to whether that action is justifiable and/or legal today.
|1.24.06 @ 11:07AM|#
As a matter of fact, transmissions recorded on 9/10 indicating an attack the next day were translated on 9/12. Doesn't anyone remember the "chatter?" Hell, the PDB for one day in August was titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US." They had the electronic intelligence they needed - that wasn't the problem.
|1.24.06 @ 11:11AM|#
Joe,
But they didn't have unlimited presidential wiretapping. Don't ask too many goddamned questions. The facts here don't matter. If GWB got caught with his dick stuck in a goat, the White House Spin Machine would be working full-time right now trying to convince us that, had Bush been allowed to fuck a goat in 2001, 9/11 could've been prevented.
|1.24.06 @ 11:15AM|#
"Disaster . . . it can happen anywhere, But we've got a few tips, so you can be prepared, For floods, tornadoes, or even a 'quake, You've got to be ready�so your heart don't break." �rap by "Herman," FEMA's hermit crab mascot for the agency's new FEMA for Kids Web site.
Tip #1: Don't rely on FEMA to bail your ass out when the shit hits the fan.
Tip #2: Rebuild New Orleans out of chocolate, like Mayor Nagin suggests.
Tip #3: Don't let the Army Corps of Engineers play any part in said chocolate-land rebuilding process.
|1.24.06 @ 11:55AM|#
The other problem with trying to change the dealer networks is that dealers will run to their state governments to get some legislative relief. Many states already have laws in place to prohibit car makers from acting as dealers (not sure about the purported rationale for those laws).
The dealers will just get a law prohibiting really-fucking-big retailers from acting as dealers.
Other than that, great idea.
Dave W.|1.24.06 @ 12:02PM|#
The dealers will just get a law prohibiting really-fucking-big retailers from acting as dealers.
Or they will just use the Sherman Act, which is the law that forced the independent network of dealers to come into existence in the first place. No new law needed. Just enforcement of the old law what used to get enforced and has now been quietly forgotten.
|1.24.06 @ 12:07PM|#
If GWB got caught with his dick stuck in a goat, the White House Spin Machine would be working full-time right now trying to convince us that, had Bush been allowed to fuck a goat in 2001, 9/11 could've been prevented.
If private contracting companies with close connections to the Vice-President had been allowed to give our military drinking water contaminated with raw sewage prior to 9-11, the World Trade Center would be standing today.
fyodor|1.24.06 @ 12:24PM|#
The great unknown is the extent to which the strike stirred up traceable terrorist activity in the region or whether such activity was driven even further underground.
Heh, that's kinda the crux of the matter right there, eh?
|1.24.06 @ 1:47PM|#
"I think the 'line line line' rhyme scheme constitutes cheating"
How about: Layoffs at Ford, NSA's ox is gored, and a Pakistani pol refuses to say "fnord" - in the new Reason Express
|1.24.06 @ 2:32PM|#
Tip #2: Rebuild New Orleans out of chocolate, like Mayor Nagin suggests.
Mmm, chocolate.
*merrily runs around eating bits of what appears to be the French Quarter, except completely made of chocolate*
|1.24.06 @ 5:13PM|#
Regarding "holes" in Ford's product line: I don't know of anyone who decides to buy a Ford and then asks themselves if they want a sedan or a minivan. That kind of thinking died in the Seventies. Isuzu makes only trucks and SUVs and they seem to be doing all right.
For that matter, I don't think there's a dealer in the country that only sells one make of auto. They usually sell a domestic brand and a foreign brand. Plus used cars and lease returns from every maker in the world.
I'm buying a car right now. I want a coupe. So I go down a list of car manufacturers on the Web and look at their coupes. Ford has just one, a Mustang coupe that starts at 20K. Honda has three: the Accord coupe starting at 20K, the Civic Si (with 191hp engine!) starting at 20K, and the standard Civic coupe starting at 14K. Does this mean that Ford has a "hole" in their line of cars? Or have they simply conceded an area of the market in which they are uncompetitive to a more experienced rival?
|1.24.06 @ 8:12PM|#
Can making up a word and desperately hoping it gains street cred be far behind?
*coff*jiggy*coffcoff*
|1.25.06 @ 7:22AM|#
Granted I am not a lawyer; but it's less than obvious to me how the Sherman Act would find application against an entity with twenty-something percent market-share and falling.
About Pictires|1.25.06 @ 6:39PM|#
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