What does fasting for a month achieve, exactly?PernicioEnigma

Off the top of my head (and with a disturbing trend of grey plastic body panels):

-Pontiac Aztec
-Subaru Baha
-Chevy Avalanche
-Honda Ridgeline
-Chrysler PT Cruiser
-Chevy HHR
-Ford Flex
-Nissan Juke

Most cars are merely inoffensively bland, though, not ugly, so they benefit from that one saving grace.

edit - forgot the hideous JukeDJ_Lae

The Avalanche is pretty cool I think. And the Ford Flex has grown on me, but the Honda Ridgeline just looks like a styrofoam box

Nissan Juke and Pontiac Aztec. Nissan should have known better.

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Pretty much the only thing Obama did was give our forces the go.

That's not true.

Obama was given two different options by his advisors, to do a raid or to bomb the compound.

Obama made the decision to do the raid instead of bombing the compound because they wanted to make sure that OBL was dead.

Also, they were not even completely sure Bin Laden was there (they say it was 54/55 situation), so Obama made a risky move in ordering the raid.

Obama's foreign policy hasn't been anything close to perfect and he hasn't fixed some of the fundamental issues with our foreign policy, but there's really no need to downplay the Bin Laden thing.

LORD OF THE FLIES.

You don't realize how true something like that can happen until you experience it. Talking about it before hand might help some avoid the same mistakes. However, looking at people today, I doubt so.

Can't quite remember the names so I'll say where there from.

126- Google Android

154- Buck Rogers robot

159- Farscape DRD

109- Marvin (Hitchhiker's guide)

58 & 123: Cylons

138: Clank

87: Dr. Who robot guys.

93: Robot chicken humping robot (hahaha poor #107)

79: Old Clash of the Titans Owl

86: Robin Williams

66: Matrix Octopus things

85: I Robot guys

153: Mystery Science 2000 gumball

75: portal robot

61: Calculon

43: Judge Dredd enforcer

Where did you find this?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14578252

Apparently a lot of Chinese people are surprised that the US ambassador to Chinaorders his own coffee and carries his own backpack. They're also surprised that VP Biden ate at a family restaurant. I'm actually a little surprised that in a Communist countrylike China there is such an acceptance of cl@ss disparities.

China debate over US envoy's coffee run

After being photographed at the airport in Seattle ordering coffee with his young daughter, the new ambassador arrived in Beijing at the weekend.

His family carried their own bags from the airport and were then driven away in a minivan.

Chen Weihua, writing in the China Daily, said that while to most Americans this would not be out of the ordinary, to Chinese people "the scene was so unusual it almost defied belief".

"In China even a township chief, which is not really that high up in the hierarchy, will have a chauffeur and a secretary to carry his bag," he said in an editorial headlined "Backpack makes a good impression".

American officials are to serve the people, but Chinese officials are served by the people, that's the difference," said one commentator on Sina.com, in a representative post.

US Vice-President Joe Biden ate noodles at a Beijing restaurant after high-level talks

After being photographed at the airport in Seattle ordering coffee with his young daughter, the new ambassador (Ambassador Locke) arrived in Beijing at the weekend.

His family carried their own bags from the airport and were then driven away in a minivan.

Chen Weihua, writing in the China Daily, said that while to most Americans this would not be out of the ordinary, to Chinese people "the scene was so unusual it almost defied belief".

"In China even a township chief, which is not really that high up in the hierarchy, will have a chauffeur and a secretary to carry his bag," he said in an editorial headlined "Backpack makes a good impression".

"Even the head of a Chinese village would travel in more ****than Locke," another comment on the same site read, adding, in a sarcastic reference to an old government policy: "I advise him to go to the Chinese countryside for two years to learn from officials there."

The debate continued when Mr Biden, who is paying a five-day official visit to China, ate noodles and dumplings at a family-run restaurant after his talks with Vice-President Xi Jinping.

Netizens reported that his bill came to $13 , and compared it with the more lavish meals enjoyed by top leaders.

How about we just let the economy fix itself? Why should it be the government's job to create jobs and fix an economy based on free enterprise? If anything the government will just prolong the problem the more they try to "fix it"...karasill

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Anne Hathaway & rapping?

How much more puke-worthy can a thread get? :P

DarthJohnova

Oh, really, It can get much, much worse.

Oh, it can get much worse

The GOP's main thrust seems to be cutting spending and not raising taxes on the wealthy. I'm a conservative Democrat and I believe we need to cut spending. But I don't have a problem with having the wealthy pay more taxes, so long as the revenue is used responsibly.

MathMattS

"conservative Democrat":x *head explodes* That goes against what I've heard the smartpeople on TV say. You mean there can be shades of gray?

Seriously though (this following isn't directed at you MathMatt), The Republicans have been trying to cut taxes for as long as I can remember. They're not trying to look for new ideas to boost the economy. They're using a bad situation to get their tired political agenda passed. If only Congressional Democrats had some backbone though...