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Looks like the back of the 750i. I like it better than the sedan, mainly because it doesn't look so Korean. Hopefully the whole care is more agressive than the bland sausage that is the sedan.

Nice engine, hopefully they find a decent car to put it in.

Yeah there is a section of the scientific community that says the sun has burning more hotly than usual recently.

You can't really compare Canada with the arbitrary boundaries in Africa; Canadians migrated over from Europe. Ancient African tribes were split up, and were forced to cohabitate with longstanding enemies.

I wonder what the Iranians would say if Jews flipped out for no reason and burned down all the Iranian embassies?

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's best-selling newspaper has launched a competition to find the best cartoon about the Holocaust in retaliation for the publication in many European countries of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad. The Brussels-based Conference of European Rabbis (CER) denounced the idea and urged the Muslim world to do likewise. The daily paper Hamshahri said the contest was designed to test the boundaries of free speech -- the reason given by many European newspapers for publishing the cartoons of the Prophet. "A serious question for Muslims ... is this: 'does Western free speech allow working on issues like America and Israel's crimes or an incident like the Holocaust or is this freedom of speech only good for insulting the holy values of divine religions?'" the paper said on Tuesday. Davoud Kazemi, who is in charge of the contest, told Reuters that each of the 12 winners would have their cartoons published and receive two gold coins (worth about $140 each) as a prize. In Paris, CER President Joseph Sitruk, who is also Chief Rabbi of France, said: "The Iranian regime has plummeted to new depths if it regards the deaths of six million Jews as a matter for humor or to score cheap political points. "Sadly, we are not surprised by this action," he said, recalling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls last year for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and his dismissal of the Holocaust as a myth. In a statement issued by the CER, which represents chief rabbis from over 40 European countries, Sitruk said the Iranian government menaced Jews and the whole international community. Sitruk noted that European religious leaders had condemned the publication of images likely to offend believers' feelings. "This is a test for the Muslim world to react immediately to condemn their own co-religionists in Iran for such obscene behavior as we condemned those who sought to insult them," he said. Iranian protesters hurled petrol bombs and stones at the Danish Embassy in Tehran for a second successive day on Tuesday. Iran announced it had cut all trade ties with Denmark because of the cartoons and hundreds of protesters hurled rocks and fire bombs at the Danish embassy on Monday night. A Danish newspaper first published the cartoons in September, and newspapers in Norway and a dozen other countries reprinted them last month. http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle....&archived=False

A bit old, but still good: http://www.slate.com/id/2126715/

It doesn't mention the granite inserts anywhere; do they even exist?

I just got a brochure for the Escalade today, even though I didn't ask for it. It looks amazingly nice and is of very good qualit. Here are some crappy pictures from my camera phone (chopped versions are at cadillac.com):

Seeing the pregnant monster thing was pretty gross...

Everybody who lived there left anyway; it will take forever to rebuild, and the people won't come back. It's just a hopeless situation.

I actually think the back looks pretty good in Spyder form.

It looks alright, apart from the chrome around the headlights (the concept looked much better without it) and the rear looks exactly like the H3. The interior is better than recent Chryslers, but it's nothing special. I suspect most buyers will be people who were gonna get a Liberty anyway.

New Orleans is screwed; it will never recover its former glory. French Quarter, shipping ports will survive, but not much else.

Well the dash layout is much more friendly to the RHD conversion than the Solstice: Just pop the steering wheel on the other side.

Most people mean Tony Blair style.

New England is easy (even though I don't know anyone who actually speaks it), so is Jewish (think Kyle's cousin Kyle on South Park), British, southern, Mexican, Chinese, French, and black (TEEEvee). For the life of me I can't do a Russian accent.

Hmmmm:

Funny that Crick is both a hick expression and a man that discovered DNA (albeit after stealing an American researcher's notes).

Wedding Crashers is really good, 40 year old virgin is merely OK. Never heard of the last one.

What?

Check out how much of that back window is covered by that black stuff. It has like a 1inch square of visibility.

I don't follow it at all, but I checked out the MSN horoscope for me (Leo). Boy was that completely off!

Yeah, the GL is pretty gross, especially the rear. Have you seen the pic of the S-class they have plastered over the front page? It looks awful!

The parties in the US are essentially identical, except for minor disagreements that get played up a whole lot. A third party would royally screw up the system; we don't need that. The reason the two party system has worked is because of the fact that Americans share a common viewpoint on most issues, with most of the differences taken up by the two parties.