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I like Kool-Aid but don't really get the chance to drink it much anymore. When I was in Rome a year ago, my mom sent me a care package with little single serving packets of Kool-Aid that you dump into a glass of water. That was probably the last time I had it. I've really cut back on pop too; I used to go through 3 or 4 cans a day in high school, now I go through maybe 3 or 4 a week. Mostly juice and water these days.

I'm copying this straight from the thread in BON to save time, but it appears GM had the greatest fleet sale marketshare drop (7.66% points) and Toyota had the largest gain (2.06% points). Nissan increased and is almost poised to surpass Ford, which actually decreased its fleet share by 1.4%.

Yeah, the Veep debate is going to be good. I bet Palin pulls the "maverick" card at least once.

Agreed Dodgefan. While McCain is a war hero and has had fairly extensive experience with foreign policy, his lack of acknowledgment toward Obama as an equal was pretty unprofessional. It's one thing to talk about knowledge and experience, and it's another to call your opponent naive multiple times and manipulate the words in statements he made in an attempt to discredit him. Obama took the higher road in this debate, and as a whole, I'd say he won.

I'm watching the debate on YouTube right now, and the main thing I'm noticing is that, as siegen said, Obama is very concise in his points and tends to give a very good overview of his ideas. McCain goes off on tangents and doesn't really address the overall idea. I'm watching right now where the question was how would they use the $700 billion and all McCain rambled on about some story where he saved $6.8 billion with defense contractors...whereas Obama talked about improving education, fixing healthcare, and investing in new forms of energy. Obama seems to understand that we are being left behind on the world stage; this issue doesn't seem as urgent within the McCain campaign.

I'd rather have a "yawn" than a complete psychopath that can't do interviews and regurgitates whatever talking points McCain gives her. Picking Sarah Palin for VP was the worst political move McCain could have made.

I freaking hate Macs. Yeah, Windows has its problems, but Macs irritate me to the ends of the earth whenever I use one. E-v-e-r-y single time I used one for Photoshop or internet the god damn windows would accidentally get minimized when you click outside of it. Our macs at school always had compatibility issues with the scanners, and I hated the little pop up icons on the bottom because the scroll area was so small that half the time you would end up clicking the wrong one. I hate that when you minimize the window, it still has the program bar at the top; it drove me nuts switching between programs. I did a lot of graphics work in school and never saw the benefits with Macs. Yeah, you get some extra programs that Windows doesn't come standard with, but I used the Adobe Suite for pretty much everything and it works just as well on PC's as it does Macs. And when it comes to gaming, it's not even a contest.

She'll get the Salem voters, that's for sure!

Here's an excerpt from the interview...boy is it bad... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg6hF0nShQ

I think a couple hundred brain cells died while reading that...

http://electoral-vote.com/ According to this, Obama is still leading. I've been watching it daily, and in the last week he has picked up Colorado, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Virginia, Michigan, and Wisconsin. He also picked up 1 percentage point in Ohio today.

Ron Paul is who I was gunning for in the primaries. If he was running against Obama right now instead of McCain, I'd be voting for RP this November.

In an interview today, Palin said to Katie Couric that the US "appears to be headed down the road to another Great Depression" if the $700 billion bailout bill does not pass. This coming from the same camp that said there was no problem and the fundamentals of our economy were strong. All in the span of about a week. You want to know why McCain's rating is tanking? They have no consistency between the two of them. He says one thing, she says the other, and both have had a total 180 degree change in opinion of our economic state. Inconsistency is not reassuring, especially not in times of crisis; I don't want a president that will be running around with his head was cut off at every bump in the road. None of McCain's campaigning the last couple weeks has spelled leadership; it spells desperation.

Yep, I heard about that one last night. Could she have picked an uglier looking female tho?

A) A woman doesn't come even close to producing what a cow can produce. B) The thought of eating ice cream made from breast milk is disgusting.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checke...connection.html The "domestic terrorist" is now a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Times change, people change.

Oh, I met a couple in Rome...they tried to recruit me, but I laughed at their pamphlet and walked away. Members of scientology function much in the same way as people who get hooked on Quixtar or (sc)Amway; get suckered into buying a bunch of commercial junk that will "teach the ways", then get so far over their heads that they lose relationships, friendships, jobs, etc. It's all mind games, and the weak willed are their target.

Here is a brilliant piece on Palin's extremism and America's acceptance of mediocrity in government. The best paragraphs are quoted below. http://www.newsweek.com/id/160080

Happy belated birthday! I was out of town the last couple days.

I have Verizon, LG chocolate like this, except in black. I've been impressed with Verizon; it's not very often I have less than two bars reception. Even out in the boonies, 95% of the time I have good reception.

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I actually drive more now that I'm out of school and have to commute to work each day. It's about a 7 mile round trip every day, plus I still do some weekend travel. Gas really hasn't affected my budget; I've never had long enough commutes that I've ever really felt the pinch. Even when I was driving 70 mile round trips twice a week to go to work while I was in school, I was pretty oblivious to how much I spent in gas. If anything, I don't cruise as much as I did in high school...mostly because I'm too busy anymore.

http://blogs.automobilemag.com/6283606/gre...eaks/index.html Waa waa, suck it up Toyota. It sure was great when you were getting tax rebates on the Prius and your government was funding your hybrid engine development. Now it's someone else's time to shine.

I'm not so sure about that....first the "Bridge to Nowhere", now it's the $600 million "Bridge/Highway to Nowhere" to connect her hometown with Anchorage. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080916/ap_on_...idge_to_wasilla They did a study and found that the existing Glenn Highway will actually be a shorter commute from Wasilla. $600 million to serve 7,000 people....it seems insane, right? What they don't tell you is that Palin's buddies who own land across this inlet want the bridge built so that it will spawn development in this area that has been largely untouched. Leaders in Anchorage don't want it because it will spoil their Anchorage 2020 smart growth plan; locals don't want it because this area is a natural habitat for whales. $600 million for 7000 people equals about $85,000 per resident. It'd be almost as cheap just to relocate the entire town. Existing Glenn Highway in yellow, proposed Don Young Highway in red.

Long term I think the Merrill Lynch acquisition will be a good thing for BofA (allowing them growth in new markets), but short term it will be a nightmare for their shareholders. They're inheriting a lot of debt and a lot of mess...kinda like if GM bought Chrysler tomorrow. The stock went down $6 bucks the day they announced they were buying ML. But if they can survive the current economy, when things start to pick up again they will be even more dominant in the banking industry than they already are.