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GM Pulls Plug on Electric Car
davebo writes "General Motors' EV1, the all-electric dynamo of a car, has been pulled from the market. You can read the letter GM sent out to current EV1 drivers here. When the EV1 came out, the chairman of GM said it would
"define the GM of the future". Guess he'd like to take that back now . . ." With Ford also cancelling their electric vehicle program, looks like hybrids are it for the next few years.
Logging on in the morning and getting FP.
The USA tested the biggest conventional bomb today, and they accuse other countries of having weapons of mass destruction and supporting terrorism??? It is the height of hypocrisy. FUCK THE USA.
By Gil Christner
Democratic Underground
February 7, 2003
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary of State Colin Powell today offered incontrovertible proof of the long-sought-after link between Saddam Hussein's Regime and the al Qaeda Terrorist Network.
In a speech before the General Assembly, General Powell was able to show, through a series of "degrees of separation," how Hussein was merely 6 people away from Osama bin Laden, leader of al Qaeda.
Using charts, graphs, and all AV equipment available to the U.N., Powell presented his case to the General Assembly and the entire world, which was watching via television cameras.
Never rambling or tentative, a confident Sec. Powell spoke with a voice of authority, outlining the solid connection between the leader of Iraq and the group of terrorists deemed "the most dangerous people to Humanity" by Fox News Network.
The series of charts and graphs were presented in 14 different languages, including Farsi, Aramaic and German. French was inexplicably left out of the languages used.
In sum, here are Gen. Powell's arguments:
1. In December of 2002, actor Sean Penn went to Baghdad, home of Saddam Hussein.
2. Sean Penn is married to actress Robin Wright Penn.
3. Robin Wright Penn made the movie "Forrest Gump" with Tom Hanks.
4. Tom Hanks made the film "Apollo 13" with Kevin Bacon.
5. Kevin Bacon made a Visa card commercial with Indian-born character actor Sahid Benjali.
6. Sahid Benjali used to bartend at the Lingerie Club in Hollywood. In the early 80's he served drinks to Carmen bin Laden, a former USC student, who is Osama's sister-in-law (estranged).
After Gen. Powell's presentation, there were several heated discussions, with many of the delegates making angry responses, some of which were not too flattering to the case being made.
"6 degrees? Fah!" said Ahmad Abul Gheit, the delegate from Egypt. "I can get from Saddam to Osama in 5 people! Including Madonna!"
"5 people? I can do it in four," retorted Elinor Hammarskjold, the Swedish delegate. "And I don't need to use Kevin Bacon! Just give me the Farrelly Brothers and a pool boy in Bel-Air!" Where upon the entire floor of the U.N. erupted into arguments.
Eventually the winner emerged: Tanzania delegate Mark J. Mwando was able to get from Saddam to Osama in 2:
1. In 1983, Saddam Hussein met with then U.S. Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, working on behalf of the Ronald Reagan-George Bush Sr. administration.
2. George Bush Sr. was formerly the head of the CIA, the organization which armed Osama bin Laden and provided training to his followers in the 80's.
For coming up with the winning entry, Delegate Mwando was treated to a party platter from the Carnegie Deli on 7th Ave. "This is wonderful," Mwando said as he munched on a dill pickle. "I can feed half of Tanzania with this!"
Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld could not be reached for comment. However, director Peter Farrelly was reported as saying, "Far out."
But according to sex and health experts, pulling out never works. I wonder where this thread is going next...
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"I'm not bright. Big words confuse me. But Wanda loves me and that should be enough for you." - Cosmo
I don't know for sure, but probably some genius in the Cal State government thought "Hey, induction uses a magnetic field. That's an emission!"
It's very probable. I live in California, and the voters here send the stupidest, sack of s*** mother-effers that you have ever seen in your life into office. I am talking about the lowest form of scumbag life you have ever seen. This current governor and legislature anally raped the largest budget surplus into the largest deficit in just two years. If you ever wanted to know the harm Democrats can cause when unfettered, come on out to California.
In the North you have the final outpost of the Hippie movement, and in the South you have all the illegals looking for benefits. In the Center of it all is a vast pile of desperate, attention seeking lunatics who still think BDSM is a wild new thing and that anyone outside a few elderly folk in Iowa finds them shocking.
And then the absolute zero loser hypocrites (the politicians admonish people for their gas guzzling habits while the politicians themselves drive state subsidized SUVs and luxury cars) in office appoint people to these air and resource management boards that literally drive a practicing agnostic like me to use the word "evil" when describing them. One guy, Democrat Steve Peace, was basically the sole architect of the whole electricity crisis.
Peace's reward for causing one of the largest utility screwups of the century was to become one of Governor Gray Davis' power brokers and a lifestyle beyond the dreams of most here on /.
And the ignorant voters just eat it all up, bend over, spread their ass cheeks, and ask for another, please, sir.
Just a small part of the reason I tend to root for the asteroid.
But, hey, the weather's nice. :-)
--- Ban humanity.