OMG! That made me laugh! Good one Ted!

LOL, I was actually serious. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> They are all monorchic <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

varying levels of insanity? fundamentalists in some sort or another?

I'm serious

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/547156

http://jezebel.com/5093338/the-5-most-famous-one+ball-wonders

hmmmm....i dunno if he's serious, guys.

Ha, you fell for it Mag.









j/k <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

tedwca was actually right <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I'm with you on that KENKEN. If I screw up, no one is going to bail my butt out and no one should have to. We all pay for our own mistakes and get paid according to our own successes. What is agrivating is that we as taxpayers have no say how our taxes are being spent <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" />

One of the biggest problems with the Big Three is Americans. I hate to say it but the public is one of the biggest problems. Americans, in general, like and, more importantly, purchase large vehicles. How many years straight have all of the full sized pickup trucks been in the top 10, or for that matter, the top five in vehicle sales. Recent history shows that, in the USA, the top selling car is usually only number five or six on the top ten list. Not saying its right or not but the Big Three only, historically, produce small economical cars in order to meet the fleet fuel economy standards. Most of these vehicles make very little or no money for the companies but help to increase the fuel economy of the whole fleet to a point where the bigger, more expensive, and less fuel economical cars, trucks and SUVs can be sold.

I totally agree that the auto industry is horribly bloated and could be stream lined to a major extent. I also believe that they are currently in dire straights because of the recent oil price problems and then the economic downturn. They were making decent enough money (although this can be debated easily) before gas went up past $2 a gallon. Now, the very vehicles that made the vast majority of their money just cant be sold. The industry has been making strides to improve the economy of their fleet but I think its too little too late. When Saturn's big step to give an economical car is to import an Opal that only gets 30mpg highway they are certainly behind the times.

I guess in summary, if American's showed more demand for smaller, more economical, vehicles then the industry would have changed over more gradually and a longer time ago. As it stands the huge vehicles that were all the rage went out virtually overnight. Well, at least that is my take.

Oh, i guess I am more in favor of them using chapter 11 to restructure and re-negotiate their debt then to get repeated bailouts. If we do bail them out, I believe, the needed restructuring and re-negotiations will only be put off longer and be harder to do.

I ordered my rifle today. I pick it up on Tuesday.

if this was true, we wouldn't have a problem.


American companies produce and sell these small cars overseas successfully. here, unfortunately, consumers flock to the imports.