Comments on: Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:48:32 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: darms http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121270 darms Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:36:25 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121270 <p>FWIW, seems as if 2008 is the centennial year for GM - </p> <p>“www.kingoftheroad.net/pontiac_html/58pontiac_5.html”</p> <p>Whodathought they’d be ‘celebrating’ by potentially going under? (You’ll have to cut & paste as the !@#$%^ link embedding still no workee)</p> FWIW, seems as if 2008 is the centennial year for GM –

“www.kingoftheroad.net/pontiac_html/58pontiac_5.html”

Whodathought they’d be ‘celebrating’ by potentially going under? (You’ll have to cut & paste as the !@#$%^ link embedding still no workee)

]]> By: JohnLopresti http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121262 JohnLopresti Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:28:05 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121262 <p>I have read that car emissions are changing ocean chemistry. Also, when CA in the past week passed a dieselfuel regulation law, there was news that biodiesel produces the same kind of biotoxic effects subtended under those new regs. Maybe Detroit is ready to migrate to right to work states, or perhaps the South will awaken unilaterally. I think congress needs to work as the equalizer, much as it did with civil rights and equal opportunity, as the scope of the impacts needs balancing broadly over the entire economy. Bush and friends will broadcast hype about the pathos they experience from the car industry crash in Detroit, but it is a hollow plaintive the exiting administration’s spokespersons are enunciating.</p> I have read that car emissions are changing ocean chemistry. Also, when CA in the past week passed a dieselfuel regulation law, there was news that biodiesel produces the same kind of biotoxic effects subtended under those new regs. Maybe Detroit is ready to migrate to right to work states, or perhaps the South will awaken unilaterally. I think congress needs to work as the equalizer, much as it did with civil rights and equal opportunity, as the scope of the impacts needs balancing broadly over the entire economy. Bush and friends will broadcast hype about the pathos they experience from the car industry crash in Detroit, but it is a hollow plaintive the exiting administration’s spokespersons are enunciating.

]]> By: readerOfTeaLeaves http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121261 readerOfTeaLeaves Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:12:11 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121261 <p>Not OT:</p> <p>Today, I needed to look up something related to physics and astronomy.<br /> The keyword = ‘magnetar’.</p> <p>So I googled ‘magnetar’. And what came up? Magnetar, LLC.<br /> Hmmmm…. interesting.<br /> So I thought, “Hmmm… I wonder what happens if I google “Magnetar + Cerberus”…?”</p> <p>Anyone who has even remote doubts about how money-centered and ruthless the PE firms are might find my little exercise quite enlightening. Not pleasant. But enlightening.</p> <p>So on that cheerless note, I’m off to toddle after obscure topics related to ‘<em>magnetars</em>‘ and ‘<em>magnetic fields</em>‘… sigh.</p> Not OT:

Today, I needed to look up something related to physics and astronomy.
The keyword = ‘magnetar’.

So I googled ‘magnetar’. And what came up? Magnetar, LLC.
Hmmmm…. interesting.
So I thought, “Hmmm… I wonder what happens if I google “Magnetar + Cerberus”…?”

Anyone who has even remote doubts about how money-centered and ruthless the PE firms are might find my little exercise quite enlightening. Not pleasant. But enlightening.

So on that cheerless note, I’m off to toddle after obscure topics related to ‘magnetars‘ and ‘magnetic fields‘… sigh.

]]> By: randiego http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121260 randiego Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:40:24 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121260 <blockquote><p>Surfer dude has saved the Trestles and San Onofre Beach!</p></blockquote> <p>Great news, for sure - we really need some! </p> <p>That road was supposedly for relief of traffic congestion, but all it really was for was to open up areas for more houses and condos. I don’t think we’ll be needing all those condos anytime soon, but we’ll be fighting that road for years - it’s a zombie.</p>

Surfer dude has saved the Trestles and San Onofre Beach!

Great news, for sure – we really need some!

That road was supposedly for relief of traffic congestion, but all it really was for was to open up areas for more houses and condos. I don’t think we’ll be needing all those condos anytime soon, but we’ll be fighting that road for years – it’s a zombie.

]]> By: sunshine http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121259 sunshine Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:29:35 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121259 <p>I was talking about the bill Bush signed this past Oct not the bill that went to the Senate last week. See link above. I think I heard it would take a yr or so to be released. Wondering if that could be speeded up by a yr?</p> I was talking about the bill Bush signed this past Oct not the bill that went to the Senate last week. See link above. I think I heard it would take a yr or so to be released. Wondering if that could be speeded up by a yr?

]]> By: BooRadley http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121258 BooRadley Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:24:46 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121258 <p>House passed it, the Senate didn’t. There’s still $15 billion left in the first $350 billion in the TARP. Paulson could use that, but Bush hasn’t let him yet. Stocks took a huge hit today when junior talked about bankruptcy.</p> House passed it, the Senate didn’t. There’s still $15 billion left in the first $350 billion in the TARP. Paulson could use that, but Bush hasn’t let him yet. Stocks took a huge hit today when junior talked about bankruptcy.

]]> By: sunshine http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121257 sunshine Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:23:56 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121257 <p>Some of the land that Gm has sold (or tried to sell) to raise cash.</p> <p><a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/AUTO01/810010383" rel="nofollow">http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb...../810010383</a></p> Some of the land that Gm has sold (or tried to sell) to raise cash.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb…../810010383

]]> By: BooRadley http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121256 BooRadley Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:20:06 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121256 <p>Agree.</p> Agree.

]]> By: sunshine http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121255 sunshine Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:19:20 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121255 <p>Does Congress have to get permission from the WH for the 25 billion auto loan money from the fuel efficient bill Bush signed in Oct? Sorry, having a brain fart & didn’t recall the name of it. <a href="http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/AUTO01/810010350" rel="nofollow">http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb...../810010350</a></p> Does Congress have to get permission from the WH for the 25 billion auto loan money from the fuel efficient bill Bush signed in Oct? Sorry, having a brain fart & didn’t recall the name of it. http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb…../810010350

]]> By: bmaz http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121254 bmaz Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:03:54 +0000 http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/12/18/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and-chevrolet/#comment-121254 <p>It ain’t San Diego, It’s RanDiego!</p> <p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/" rel="nofollow">Surfer dude has saved the Trestles and San Onofre Beach!</a></p> It ain’t San Diego, It’s RanDiego!

Surfer dude has saved the Trestles and San Onofre Beach!

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