angrystan's Comments (11)

“1. If i was a cute, young anything, I'd be intimidated by Paedobear.

2. They make Paedobear dolls? Oh, what a world.”

“Wow. The headline is so phenomenally misleading this may set something for a record even for Murdoch's companies. Fisker Automotive has signed a deal to produce a car with Vamet, a contract manufacturer in Finland best known for stamping out and screwing together Porsches. Details are not public, but as Fisker is showing up in economically desperate parts of the US looking to either build or take possession of a factory, presumably it is not long term (under two years).

Gore's investment is that he put down the full purchase price of a Karma, which may prove an environmentally conscious (read: high MPG, low emissions) competitor to the E-class, 7-series and Ghost.

This loan(read: loan) is the same as that given to Ford last month to promote high MPG, low emissions vehicles. The money can only be used in the event two dollars of private capital or private loans are spent for every dollar from the loan. Uncle Sam is merely underwriting the loan, not unlike a college loan. If you think your bank is bad, you should have to file reports to Uncle Sam's army of accountants.

The folks who feared for WSJ under News Corporation have proved prescient.”

“I may have grown up in a bad part of the country, but I am reading between the lines on this one.
Neither guns nor publicly-available bullets are the problem.

May those involved rest in a much deserved peace.”

“I experience dismay at HuffPo's puerile and evidently new fascination with shmozobs.

Like most American men I certainly have an unhealthy and irrational fascination with the topic, but this isn't why I come to HuffPo. Yes, I've looked at every picture.”

“This is the first sign, so to speak, in many years that Austin has not dried up completely. I was so fortunate to drive home in the wee hours, and being averse to the cluster f*** that is Interregional Highway actually saw it and considered going back to take pictures or something.

To the hacker: You give us (in Austin) hope.”

“Some papers in the UK have better contacts in Washington than American papers do. Of course, some other UK papers feel free to publish random speculation as fact. We'll see.”

“The problem with the American motor industry isn't "The Unions" as the only problem with UAW is that there isn't enough money to go around. The Big 2.8 don't have any money because of Ford and GM's buying spree of the 90s, and Chrysler is just getting restarted. They also don't have any money because they are not moving product and what they do sell is on a razor-thin margin. Often American cars are sold at a loss simply to get them out of inventory.

In lieu of watching trends in the industry and in consumer tastes, our automotive industry builds what the directors want to build. They aspire to con people into taking home a miserably designed, inefficient and fundamentally unpleasant vehicle with implausible financing. GM and Ford have the talent and other resources to build the vehicles Americans and the world wants to buy. They will not do so because the board room believes, even today, we buy automobiles exclusively because of emotional appeal. Hence the Charger and Camaro.

We are seeing the first steps of Chrysler becoming, primarily, a contractor to other automakers (see Fiat) and eventually becoming the next member of the Renault-Nissan alliance. Frankly, with European-designed chassis, Korean-designed engines and Japanese-designed electrics we might start actually making good, dependable, drivable cars on this continent. Toyota and Honda proved long ago that American workers, including American union workers, can build excellent cars if they are given excellent designs to assemble.”

“I can't believe the Mail left out that he didn't even purchase his only car. When production of the Volvo 240 ended the last 20-or-so examples rolled off the line and were presented to either museums or Swedes of international significance. Kamprad was among them.

Most of these cars were preserved as collectors items. For Kamprad's example, it became his daily driver. Somehow more fitting for the 240, I believe.”

“Ikea has a website which, at least in North America, provides shipping through the usual companies and a printed-catalog operation which provides a similar service. In fact, Ikea uses data culled from such orders for the purpose of planning stores in areas where a desire for Ikea exists. When they opened their shop in the far Northern suburbs of Austin, Texas I was both shocked and delighted. As it happens, the area they were attempting to reach wasn't so much conscientiously eccentric Austin, but the smaller towns to the north where they've been shipping catalog orders for years.”

“Hello? Anybody home? No one has mentioned the self-evident.

Any non-white person can now be asked to provide some kind of documentation proving their immigration status. That can be any kind of document, and in Texas birth certificates do not count.

Sorry, but this is about de-criminalizing their beloved racial discrimination.”

“You get the impression our ruling class fears death so much they believe it is some kind of threat. Saddam, Fidel, are we up to four-thousand working-class kids yet?

Each a martyr standing for what happens when you make a deal with America.”