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Thursday, December 11, 2008 06:29 PM

A bunch of babies were born, a few more were conceived

There were some stabbings, drug OD's, arrests, a few murders, the toilets overflowed, it rained. It's a wet dawn on the third day. Everyone's tired and hungry and tripping. Obama Hendrix take the stage and plays an odd rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

Thursday, December 11, 2008 08:45 PM

Is this eco friendly?

Seriously, what have you left out - is it about the environment because that would be the lamest thing of all.

Thursday, December 11, 2008 08:48 PM
Original article: "Doubt"

You seem angry that it wasn't handed to you like an episode of Grey's Anatomy.

I hate watching movies with people who insist on knowing how everything ends how everything ties together before it's even started. Luckily though, they're the ones in the bathroom, on the phone or asleep for most of the film.

Stick to Lost and similar train wrecks.

Friday, December 12, 2008 05:40 AM
Original article: Death of an auto bailout

So what

So GM gets bought out by Hyundai or one of the Chinese firms. Americans aren't going to stop purchasing vehicles just because of the name on the hood ornament. In any industry if aggregate demand drops from 17 million to 12 million units in one year there is going to be contraction.

Look at the UK. There's no more 'homegrown' auto industry there at all either. All the marque names either disappeared or belong to German or Japanese or American companies. But people still buy cars. You can only forestall failure so long at which point those companies like Triumph, Rover, MG, Jaguar, Vauxhall, Lotus, Cooper, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin (and 3 dozen other companies) either die or become just a name on someone else's car.

Friday, December 12, 2008 05:42 AM

Klaatu Barada

Negro please.

Friday, December 12, 2008 05:46 AM

Silliness

It's the Jews fault. Everything always is. We can safely ignore the peaceful peaceloving Pakistanis of peace. Go after the Jews. They are the danger.

Friday, December 12, 2008 05:49 AM
Original article: Global boiling

It takes the world down to manageable size though

Wipe out 90% of the human disease that is civilization and we're left with a green world largely untouched by our filthy horrible selves.

Friday, December 12, 2008 07:40 AM

4 hrs? Are there no editors?

If you can't tell your story in 2.5 hrs or less you're doing it wrong.

Friday, December 12, 2008 07:44 AM
Original article: Global boiling

No of course not

I'm of the liberal blogger aristocracy. Results are for little people.

Friday, December 12, 2008 07:50 AM

Cut their wages $20,000 and then give all the employees a $20,000/yr stipend out of taxes

And free health care. Nationalize all their pensions and increase the social security tax to pay for it. And increase the retirement age of everyone currently working by 5 years to ensure they stay working long enough to pay for the pensioners now. I'm sure there's still some employed middle class people who would happily pay for it.

If auto companies are such a strategic asset then we should be willing to pay whatever it takes to keep it running. I'd be fine with that. I'll just emigrate.

Friday, December 12, 2008 07:55 AM
Original article: Death of an auto bailout

How can the UK standard of living be worse

When they live in the magical nirvana of national health care?

Anyway if you want to underwrite one industry forever then fine. Cut their wages 20% and pay the difference out of taxes. Nationalize their pensions, increase the social security tax to pay for it and raise the retirement age for everyone else. Why should we even worry about this when we can yoke some middle class people to the wheel and beat them until they drop in the harness? I would happily embrace a 50% tax increase across the board in order to bailout every industry everywhere.

Friday, December 12, 2008 08:05 AM

Damn

zionist scum.

Friday, December 12, 2008 08:07 AM
Original article: Death of an auto bailout

Hey don't yell at me I'm with you

We should completely bail them all out and pay them their current wages forever even if they don't sell a single car. If that means I have to pay 100% income taxes then so be it. I fully support the return of slavery.

Friday, December 12, 2008 08:09 AM

The Day the Earth Stood Still 2 will be awesome

As long as Bruce Willis in a dirty wifebeater fights Gort.

Friday, December 12, 2008 08:14 AM

I don't care if Al Capone comes back from the dead

No one can do worse than the current jerk. No one. Robert Mugabe and his present catastrophe with rampant Cholera would be a better choice for the US than the administration now. If it turns out the Obama is the bastard son of Satan and he kills half of America, fine. At least it's progress.

Friday, December 12, 2008 08:15 AM

We could burn down the White House

And shoot all the rats who come running out.

Friday, December 12, 2008 08:18 AM
Original article: Death of an auto bailout

And it would be full employment cradle to grave social welfare

So there's a lot there for liberals to love too.

Friday, December 12, 2008 09:24 AM

A great review of this tendentious bore from Spiked Online

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/6021

Friday, December 12, 2008 09:29 AM

These are the agreements the car companies bargained for already

They would have been better off calling the UAW's bluff and letting them strike forever, years ago. Now they're stuck with each other. May they all drown in boiling lava in hell.

Friday, December 12, 2008 09:35 AM
Original article: Death of an auto bailout

Indentured servitude

Instead of joining a union, you're shackled to that company for a period of time. Like the way China handles their manufacturing complexes - barracks. But with more restrictions. In exchange they take care of you completely 100%, a place to live, some money, training, free health care, every expense carried by the company. After a set block of time you're free to move to any other company who will hire you at any wage you're able to negotiate or you can be self employed or you can go on welfare for a small portion of what you last were 'paid'.

Friday, December 12, 2008 09:37 AM
Original article: Domestic downsizing

Gas the Wealthy

..and their brood. Problem solved, the revolutionary way.

Friday, December 12, 2008 09:56 AM

Oh I sure hope they do.

I hope it all ends in flames and cannibalism. For everyone, everywhere.

Friday, December 12, 2008 01:23 PM

We're going to destroy the earth because you're not nice to mother nature

I can smell the hippies lining up for this one already.

Friday, December 12, 2008 01:27 PM

Leave them to butcher one another to the last man standing.

We need to leave, ignore it and let them settle it however they want. It really matters nothing what we want and there's nothing we could do about it if it did. If they want to start lobbing missiles at other, fine. And if 'terror' boils over to us, well that's fine too. All they can do is piss the west off, they can't actually effect any meaningful change among us. And once we're 100% disengaged, there isn't anything we could do less of anyway. So screw them.

Friday, December 12, 2008 01:29 PM

Workers already have near zero rights

What planet are YOU from. A couple of hundred thousand UAW line guys out of work isn't going to change how my company already treats people like shit. It won't make the least difference at all.

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