Intrepidation

Not a fan. Looks like a 90's Pontiac concept, and not in a good way. The proportions are nice but that's all I really like about it.

Wait, are you saying that the motorcyclist spraying burnout on his hood would be considered a traffic accident? Or him kicking the door? I'd be happy to hold my temper if I can call 911 with his license plate number and actually have the police take it seriously. I doubt that would happen. Where I used to live ricers would do burnouts on my street every so often. I'd call the cops and they would come. The best time was when some retarded in a Mazda 626 blew a tire and while he was trying to change it the cop showed up. I laughed pretty hard.

This.

Gray 9-5, very sharp looking car.

Happy Birthday gentlemen!

Blue Fiesta hatch Silver Focus Sedan Red Focus Hatch Gray Focus Hatch Black Elantra Silver Elantra Gray Caravan Red Caravan Black Caravan Red Kia Koupe Red Chevy Cruze Silver Chevy Cruze White Chevy Cruze Silver Durango Red Compass Black Compass Gray Compass White Patriot Notice a color pattern? Yellow Lotus Elise That red Dodge Viper SRT10 convertible Green 68" Pontiac Firebird with 20" wheels on it. Black `69 Dodge Charger with very wide tires in the back. Red `69 Ford Mustang Convertible Oh and a hideous 2011 Camaro done up in blue and gold.

Durango sales 65375% YTD The little Jeeps are doing well, as is the 200 and the minivans.

I dunno, I can only guess that because the crash structure is stronger but takes up more space. I also wonder if has something to do with rear seat legroom numbers. Those front seats could go further back if the tracks were longer, plenty of space to do so, but then it would impose on the nonexistent rear passengers and Toyota wouldn't be able to claim as much rear passenger room...because when you buy an economy you plan to haul lots of people with it all the time. Now as for the Caliber another thing I don't like is how high the door sill is. I've found myself bumping my feet into it while getting it out a few times.

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I forgot about the Forte couple. I actually really like it. Looks good in person. Sporty and kind of aggressive.

For me, the top pick by a wide margin is the Focus. Easily the best looking (in either body style), sportiest, best handling )especially with the Titanium Handling Package), most sophisticated. I'll take mine as a black sedan with the Titanium Handling Package. Cruze is pretty anonymous looking. Not bad but not a head turner. Elantra is very expressive but while I still like it, I like the design less than I first did. We had a Corolla rental for a couple months at work as a backup delivery vehicle. I should do a review on it, but my impressions are as follows: Nice engine, smooth and sounds pretty good when you give it the beans, which you need to in order to get the car out of its own way. Drives ok, body roll is there and steering is devoid of feel but it drives fine as an everyday car. The ride is good. Seats were fine. Interior is almost all hard plastic, which is well textured but not that well put together and the switchgear is cheap. Transmission is very smooth. Brakes are grabby though not as bad as the Colorados. I liked how the trunk would open all the way on its own when you hit the release, very handy when your hands are full carrying brake rotors. Biggest surprise is that, despite being bigger than the Prizm, it's ancestral cousin, there's way less leg room, no wonder why SAmadei says he can't fit in today's compacts. We have a Caliber now, newer one with the upgraded interior. Leg room is a bit better but it feels cramped too because the high center console and door panel intrude into my space and both legs are against the hard plastic. In some ways the interior is better than the Corolla. More soft touch surfaces (center arm rest and upper door panels are hard plastic in the Corolla, soft touch in the Caliber). The switchgear of the radio and HVAC are nicer quality as well, but the Corolla has nicer multifunction and cruise control stalks. They are better damped and feel higher quality. I dislike the CVT, I mean it seems to accelerate fine but I don't like the constant noise of the engine, which doesn't sound anywhere near as nice as the Toyota. The quality ride isn't bad but not as good as the Corolla. Handling seemed about the same, steering is maybe a bit more precise. Overall it seems fine and, as with the Toyota, I'd choose it over the trucks all day long, but I don't desire to own either of them.

There's really only one thing which can be said to accurately depict my reaction to this movie: With that out of the way, I really enjoyed this movie, and going by the audience applause and cheering at the end, so did a lot of other people. It's far better than the second movie and better than the first. There's a much better defined a plot, nods to the series, the main characters have actual depth now and there's some pretty emotional moments. The Deceptions can be genuinely scarey at times and the action scenes are incredible. It's not Hamlet, but totally worth seeing if you're a Transformers fan.

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You can. It's called don't buy your children games you don't want them to play and don't let them play it. It's called being a responsible parent.

Hollywood has very little imagination and originality left these days.

I'm glad the supreme court overturned California's ridiculous proposal on banning certain types of video games. Instead of relying on the government to do their work for them, parents could, and I know this is a foreign concept this days, take some personal responsibility and make a judgement on what their children play. Retailer's aren't forcing parents to allow their kids to play these games, if parents let them own and play the games that's their own judgement call and no one else's.

WASHINGTON – States cannot ban the sale or rental of ultraviolent video games to children, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, rejecting such limits as a violation of young people's First Amendment rights and leaving it up to parents and the multibillion-dollar gaming industry to decide what kids can buy. The high court, on a 7-2 vote, threw out California's 2005 law covering games sold or rented to those under 18, calling it an unconstitutional violation of free-speech rights. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia, said, "Even where the protection of children is the object, the constitutional limits on governmental action apply." Scalia, who pointed out the violence in a number of children's fairy tales, said that while states have legitimate power to protect children from harm, "that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed." Justices Stephen Breyer and Clarence Thomas dissented from the decision, with Breyer saying it makes no sense to legally block children's access to pornography yet allow them to buy or rent brutally violent video games. "What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting the sale to that 13-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her?" Breyer said. Video games, said Scalia's majority opinion, fall into the same category as books, plays and movies as entertainment that "communicates ideas — and even social messages" deserving of First Amendment free-speech protection. And non-obscene speech "cannot be suppressed solely to protect the young from ideas or images that a legislative body thinks unsuitable for them," he said. This decision follows the court's recent movement on First Amendment cases, with the justices throwing out attempts to ban animal cruelty videos, protests at military funerals and political speech by businesses. The court will test those limits again next session when it takes up a new case involving government's effort to protect children from what they might see and hear. The justices agreed to review appeals court rulings that threw out Federal Communications Commission rules against the isolated use of expletives as well as fines against broadcasters who showed a woman's nude buttocks on a 2003 episode of ABC's "NYPD Blue." The decision to hear the FCC case was one of the last the full court made this session. Before leaving on their annual summer break on Monday, the justices also: • Voted 5-4 to strike down a provision of a campaign financing system in Arizona that gives extra cash to publicly funded candidates who face privately funded rivals and independent groups. • Agreed to hear arguments in the fall or winter on whether police need a warrant before using a global positioning system device to track a suspect's movements. • Refused to hear an appeal from former detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq who wanted to sue defense contractors over claims of abuse. More than 46 million American households have at least one video-game system, with the industry bringing in at least $18 billion in 2010. The industry has set up its own rating system to warn parents which video games are appropriate for which ages, with the rating "M" placed on games that are considered to be especially violent and only for mature adults. That system is voluntary, however. California's 2005 law would have prohibited anyone under 18 from buying or renting games that give players the option of "killing, maiming, dismembering, or sexually assaulting an image of a human being." Parents would have been able to buy the games for their children, but retailers who sold directly to minors would have faced fines of up to $1,000 for each game sold. That means that children would have needed an adult to get games like "Postal 2," the first-person shooter by developer Running With Scissors that includes the ability to light unarmed bystanders on fire. It would also apply to the popular "Grand Theft Auto" games, from Rockstar Games, that allow gamers to portray carjacking, gun-toting gangsters. The California law never took effect. Lower courts have said that the law violated minors' constitutional rights, and that California lacked enough evidence to prove that violent games cause physical and psychological harm to minors. Courts in six other states, including Michigan and Illinois, reached similar conclusions, striking down similar bans. Video game makers and sellers celebrated their victory, saying Monday's decision puts them on the same legal footing as other forms of entertainment. "There now can be no argument whether video games are entitled to the same protection as books, movies, music and other expressive entertainment," said Bo Andersen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Merchants Association. But the battle may not be over. Leland Yee, a child psychologist and California state senator who wrote the video game ban, told The Associated Press Monday that he was reading the dissents in hopes of finding a way to reintroduce the law in a way that would be constitutional. "It's disappointing the court didn't understand just how violent these games are," Yee told the AP. Thomas argued in his separate dissent that the nation's founders never intended for free speech rights to "include a right to speak to minors (or a right of minors to access speech) without going through the minors' parents or guardians." And at least two justices, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, indicated they would be willing to reconsider their votes under certain circumstances. "I would not squelch legislative efforts to deal with what is perceived by some to be a significant and developing social problem," Alito said, suggesting that a narrower state law might be upheld. States can legally ban children from getting pornography. But Scalia said in his ruling that, unlike depictions of sexual conduct, there is no tradition in the United States of restricting children's access to depictions of violence. He noted the violence in the original depictions of many popular children's fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Snow White. Hansel and Gretel kill their captor by baking her in an oven, Cinderella's evil stepsisters have their eyes pecked out by doves and the evil queen in Snow White is forced to wear red hot slippers and dance until she is dead, Scalia said. "Certainly the books we give children to read — or read to them when they are younger — contain no shortage of gore," he said. And there is no proof that violent video games cause harm to children, or any more harm than another other form of entertainment, he said. One doctor "admits that the same effects have been found when children watch cartoons starring Bugs Bunny or the Road Runner or when they play video games like Sonic the Hedgehog that are rated `E' or even when they `view a picture of a gun," Scalia said. Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council, said the decision created a constitutionally authorized "end-run on parental authority." "I wonder what other First Amendment right does a child have against their parents' wishes?" he said. "Does a child now have a constitutional right to bear arms if their parent doesn't want them to buy a gun? How far does this extend? It's certainly concerning to us that something as simple as requiring a parental oversight to purchase an adult product has been undermined by the court." http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_supreme_court_violent_video_games

First of all, the service center designed for servicing cars won't perform work on a tractor tire...that's like when people want us, an auto parts store, to get parts for their front end loader or their generator. Secondly, if its a hole too large to patch then it sounds like you need to go get a new tire...from a place that services tractors. Trying to patch a hole that large is crazy anyway, no shop in their right mind would try to patch it.

We are such prudes. Except when it comes to violence. Decapitation = ok. Suggestive sexual themes = OMFG As far as the ads themselves go, my problem is that I don't get what the point is. In no way do the sell the product. I mean there's two sides to the ad, but I suppose while one could be considered "hot" the other isn't exactly what you'd call "cold". And air conditioning? As a selling point? Really? Dual zone air conditioning is hardly new.

Hey Satty, always good to see you posting. Nature can indeed suck. I really feel for those who live in Joplin, its a bi eerie since I've been through there once before a few years ago. Girlfriend has some family there but they're alright, thankfully.

If they say something just tell them you were coming prepared for the pat downs and strip searches.

Elderly woman has to remove diaper for pat-down http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/national/12004688067155/elderly-woman-has-to-remove-diaper-for-pat-down/#ixzz1QXI8IISl That's right folks. Watch out for the elderly sick people wearing diapers. They're up to no good.

This story was on Jalopnik. The dealer is using a loophole to sell these as retail vehicles. very cool. But for whatever reason, GM is changing its rules to stop it from happening again. http://jalopnik.com/5815228/chevy-dealer-will-sell-you-a-new-caprice-police-car

Briggs and Stratton Quantum engines haven't changed much in the last 12 or so year, which is why I had lots of spares. They're tough engines. Only way you can really kill one is by hitting something with it.