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that indeed is what seems to be happening.

and you wonder why the rest of the public (i.e. mainstream folks) think architects are a bunch of whackos they don't have to pay.

seriously, that site is the best ever.

ain't that the truth.

well they are just overly vocal then. it's kind of like 'who killed the electric car'. i finally watched that the other day. You'd swear that by the tone of the movie, California is all that mattered, and the only car people want or need is a 2 seat electric car. but, they have the pulpit. what if you are a farmer living in the cold tundra of north dakota and have 4 kids and you need to tow a trailer. that EV1 is useless to you. my basic point is for all that 'california' complains about its air quality and things needing to be done, to me, its partially a product of their own behavior. The walkable communities types are clueless about things like taking your crying and hurting kid into emergency room at 2 am on a cold winter night. Like that is a situation where mass transit or walkable community is helpful? electric cars as they said in the movie, need to have 300 mile range and 5 minute refuel in order to be the 100% solution. The 90% solution is not enough for everyone to invest in.

1.mazda 2.nissan 3.mitsubishi 4.honda 5.suzuki 6.subaru 7.toyota as far as Japanese brands go. whoa! too many brands. THEY NEED TO CUT. (sarcasm)

VW's drop is not as steep because they have good 0 down sign and drive leases.

you make more money and create more worth for yourself off of reporting failures than you do off reporting good things.

a whole can of crushed tomatoes, several garlic cloves, and some onion combined into a killer italian sauce.....to be the source of a very strong car air freshener this evening, once it was processed through my internals.

of course they treated you well. they are getting free work. warning, its a profession that cultivates the non worth of its services, both from clients who don't want to pay, and the people who work in it and teach. So enjoy those sweet perks now it may be the last time.......... LEED = let's see how LEED survives the next few years. Clearly it is turning into its own profit center. They are trying to infiltrate it into codes and laws. Not saying that's all bad, but let's liken it a little to cafe in terms of how it will hamstring an industry. speaking of something that is under my skin, I'll PM you.

californians seem to forget that their lifestyle (excessively long commutes, excess lifestyles) contribute a lot to their car problems that they want the other 49 to pay for and solve. stop crying about smog if you're all driving BMW's. Stop complaining about green and mpg when you all drive audis and mercedes on you 70 mile commutes.

mks is heavily discounted. they should drop the msrps

i have no issues with company jets, it allows the execs time to be used more productively vs. their 'cap charge' do we want more work out of them? by the way congress people and senators fly private jets provided by lobbyists a lot, but you never heard about that.

they need the 7 billion so nardelli's golden parachute far exceeds the one home depot gave him

return to greatness!

har har. seriously though, sounds like a fun car. will you even get to drive it? for the record, i actually like the fake alunimun/matte finish in the astra. i don't like glossy/piano black or big swatches of real metal in cars. i don't care much for wood, either. i like the geometries of the design of the buttons and such on the astra dash. and the nice twin panel sunroof and electric shade and advanced audio EQ customization more than makes up for some painted plastic. the mini also has a lot of interesting shapes and details inside, ok, a lot more, in my opinion almost to the point of being overstyled. i don't much care for the HUGE center gauge but what would the car be like without it? Probably would lose a lot of sass without it.

POISON FLESH AND BLOOD album...far and away their best. cannot listen to this one loud enough. could perhaps be the best recording / sound job on an 80's style cd......although there are many fine contenders. (cherry pie/warrant, winger-in the heart of the young, danger danger)

i was just thinking the same thing.

you know, with the import brands seeing huge drops too last month, you'd think at some point people would see how much of a storm this is becoming.

we excuse lead paint in chinese toys. to me there are three lingering stereotypes that drive a lot of America's thinking. 1-Pinto's Vegas etc.....that mindset that GM still builds vegas even though if you let them drive a new CTS for a month, they'd still complain 2-german cars must be better, they race a lot, and drive at high speeds on the AUTOBAHN. so their cars MUST be better. 3-lastly is the lingering racial profiling that those nice quiet Asians sit and work diligently after years and years of all those math and science classes, now they toil endlessly using their quiet little scientist minds to make and build sht for us holier than thou Americans. Whatever they make must be perfect, because that's all those people do.....sit and study and overwork because they are fanatically studious just exist to build our sht. face it, America's confidence in just about everything is shot. Like my dad said, it doesn't even matter, people have this perception that they have been fueling the detroit money machine for 50 years plus, they feel entitled to something. All give, nothing in return. So they actually see this as retribution......to the company that has fueled their mobility for the last century. What they don't see is that they will spend this money on transportation....and that maybe its important that we provide this here on our own soil. This is America, people won't care until the carnage affects them. We're a culture of tear it down, build them back up. We love soap operas. People want to see Detroit go away, not maybe so much like Jesus on the cross, but it seems to reek of the same kind of sentiment. They want the big 3 gone. But maybe it will be a nice feel good story someday when GM is resurrected. No one seems to care if we destroy thousands of lives in the meantime. We would not be a mobile society without Ford GM etc. We may not have had as much industrialization, and roads and sprawling burbs without GM or Ford Chrysler etc. OUr worldly and mobile lives have enabled a prosperity for us that unmatched in the world. The companies that built the products that enabled us to do that and employ and support millions of employees and their families etc......now its not worth anything to anyone. You know, aside from the real estate bubble, energy prices explosion, food price explosion, bank credit issues .......the main problem that is never mentioned in all of this....people's wages and livelihoods have not kept up with the cost of everything else during the bush administration. a culture was fostered in this country to enable corporate america to bleed the working classes dry......of your home values, bank accounts, investments, your net worth. although consumers are to blame for some behavior, any person with half a brain can find that with all the outsourcing, underemployment due to lack of new or expanding industries, wage cuts, 'free' trade, outside companies coming in and sucking our money out and sending it elsewhere, war spending, where do you stop......... the wage bubble will start to hit the MBa types soon if it hasn't already. hopefully too the exec classes and such. if the upper crust wants to continue that way, they need to learn that the bottom feeders (other 95% of our population) needs to have the ability to live decently too. With runaway inflation, stripping our wealth, and the complete destruction of decent jobs and wage scales in this country, i guess now we're seeing the fallout. Maybe Biden was right. stick it to the wealthy and make them pay for it. of course, politicians are the last people we admire and trust too. everyone has let Americans down, even if we are to blame ourselves.

JC WHITNEY?

is my 011 astra going to be an Opel, Saturn, Buick, Saab, or Pontiac? that's about all i want to know right now.

print some brochures documenting all the money senator alabama gave to his 3 transplant mfrs, the new kia borrego the georgia gov was given by kia, and how many hundred millions that town in TN is trying to give VW now

does buick get the next 9-5?

oy vey my head hurts