Goodbye GTO

The US Government has given GM billions of dollars to save America's largest car maker. The Detroit corporation is still in need. $15 billion this time and the executives have even offered to eliminate several brand names from their inventory, most notably Pontiac, thus ending any real reason for the company to exist in the future.

GM hasn't come out with a good car in years.

The last one coming to mind is the GTO from Pontiac.

The GTO or 'Goat' emerged as the first muscle car in 1964. The Arab Oil Embargo ended its production in 1974, although Holden of Australia came out with a new version from 2004 to 2006. The GTO was every boy's dream car in the 60s. Red. Fast. Thunder.

The brainchild of John deLorean was the result of GM banning their designers from developing race cars. Pontiac engineer Russell Gee, an engine specialist, and Bill Collins, a chassis engineer, transformed the mild-mannered Tempest into a street machine rivalling the Ferrari 250. Its 6.5 Liter engine could beat any other car off the line. My friend, Bush, had a 1966 GTO. He would place $10 on the dashboard and bet every passenger that they couldn't grab the bill before he hit 4th gear. We were all pinned to the bucket seat by the Gs of V-8 acceleration.

It was a monster car.

They never made anything since.

I saw one in Maine this summer.

The owner wanted $15,000.

I felt 17 sitting behind the wheel.

$15,000,000,000 for one million GTOs.

That's worth saving GM.

Arthur Lee - Seven and Seven Is

It's winter in New York.

Rain and cold, but sometimes somethings make me think forward to the Spring.

Such as Arthur Lee performing SEVEN AND SEVEN IS with the Lemon Drops.

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Does Anyone Miss This Guy

A month has passed since GW Bush left the White House.

Does anyone miss him?

Check out the collection of GW idiot photos from the New York Daily News.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/george_w_bush_the_lamest_duck_ever/george_w_bush_the_lamest_duck_ever.html#ph0

The Art Of War Chez la Pentagon

During the Viet-Nam war some bright minds decided to inject elephants with flatulence medicine in hopes of flushing the VC out of the jungle with the pachyderms' farts. The strategy failed to take into consideration windage and several grunt mahouts were hospitalized with severe methane poisoning ala JACKASS 2.

The Pentagon attracts more schemers than dreamers and recently Counter-intelligence pundits were planning on distributing Viagra to the mountain soldiers in Afghanistan. Supposedly the penile hardener would ameliorate the heroes' breathing ability in the high altitudes. Church leaders close to the White House forced Donald Rumsfeld to abandon this tactic, fearing that men separated from the wives for years at a time would turn to homosexuality if constantly aroused by Viagra.

Better they chew coca leaves.

These two failures haven't deterred the Pentagon think tanks from new follies.

Now it's anti-terrorist dolphins and seals.

A Funnier Onion

The Onion just got funnier with their video lambasting Sony. I haven't bought anything from them in years, but none of us could have lived with the Sony Trinitron. Times changed and now Sony is renown for one thing.

ANOTHER PIECE OF SHIT

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We Will Bury You 2009

2/19 The New York Stock exchange fresh off a three-day weekend sought more bottom ground this Tuesday morning by dropping 300 points or 4% off Fridays' Closing Number. More voodoo economic wealth going poof, as the bad news keeps coming in waves. California is broke. Kansas is re-neging on tax refunds. Trump Casino rolled craps. The Big Three automakers are fighting Labor over health care. Even worse Australian householders will be taxed for each time they flushed the toilet.

What is this world coming to?

The end of capitalism?

In the words of Nikita Khrushchev, "We will bury you."

And with the Kremlin is offering to purchase an Oregon steel mill, it sounds like the grave is already dug, however don't count out the ruling elite yet. They've been in this position before and come out of it just as Buffy and Derek as always.

From WIKPEDIA

On August 24, 1963, Khrushchev himself remarked in his speech in Yugoslavia, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you," [4] a reference to the Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism"; a popular articulation of the materialist conception of history as the inevitable progression of class struggle towards communism.

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Thai Royal Pardon

Most farangs refer to Thai jail as 'the monkey house' or 'kook'. Each year hundreds of westerners, mostly men, are imprisoned by the Thai police for crimes ranging from assault to drugs. Most are lucky enough to purchase their freedom with 'persona non grata' stamped on their passport at the airport, but few are subjected to prosecution for crimes of lese majeste such as the Australian writer, Harry Nicolaides, who is serving the minimum sentence of three-years for defaming the royal family in his novel. It could have been 15 years. VERRSIMILITUDE only sold seven copies. Seven too many for the honor of Thailand, although Bangkok prison authorities have forwarded a pardon request to the Corrections Department in hopes that the petition will reach the royal palace within the next few months. The King is the father of Thailand and he is deserving of the greatest respect as the longest-serving monarch in the world as the true protector of his people.

May he live forever.