Sorry Dan...

John the train · #1 15th January 2009, 11:05 AM

Afraid it looks as if your new wheels have been trumped!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7829475.stm

***Dan*** · #2 15th January 2009, 11:58 AM

ROTFL!

Ayup! That's a nice ride for sure ... but my "change the world" days are long behind me. Methinks if your main ride needs bulletproof glass ... it's time for better friends or a new line of work! <..

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Besides, I sure wouldn't want to have to pay for that dang thing ...

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Hey! Wait a dang minute!

CRUD! I AM paying for that dang thing! <..

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bee · #3 15th January 2009, 12:02 PM

yeah! dan!!!!

i like your posts each day more!!!

they're too funny!!

i like that!!!

bye!!!!!

JN4OldSchool · #4 15th January 2009, 01:35 PM

Something tells me our president may need this new limo.

Theodor009 · #5 15th January 2009, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

Something tells me our president may need this new limo.

Not just him, it's a Caddy, we all need one! One question before I'm sold though, does it run linux?

PabloTwo · #6 15th January 2009, 08:05 PM

Easily discerned from the picture in that article about the new presidential ride, there is an obvious and glaring security flaw: those front fender mounted flags would be so easy to steal. Now, don't tell the 'bad guys' that I told you that.

***Dan*** · #7 15th January 2009, 11:06 PM

Kinda depends on the neighbourhood you drive in, doesn't it?

Hmmm.

Come to think of it. We're talking Washington DC here. Those congressional scoundrels will steal anything that isn't welded down, and many other things that are, so I see your point. <..

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#8 15th January 2009, 11:14 PM

i wonder why he had to have such an expensive car? i mean America is so much debt an yet they got him this car? why not a cheaper car with the same things. how else is america supposed to pay back the debt by giving the president a expensive car . the Prime Minister of Australia doesnt even get driven around in a expensive car like that . sure he has his own private jet an other stuff but im sure the president of the day would have a private Jet let alone car for himself be driven around in an other stuff.

PabloTwo · #9 16th January 2009, 12:13 AM

Well, actually, Dan, my point was that without those fender flags, you're just another guy in a suit driving around D.C. in a limo... dime a dozen in those parts. No flags.... no "mojo". But then, you could mount a pair of those little flags on your "son of hemi" pick-um-up and really, instantly, "be somebody".

But then you'd have to hire some guys to ride behind for security, to keep the bad guys from snatching your new mojo. Tough choice, eh?

***Dan*** · #10 16th January 2009, 12:21 AM

Yeah. But after thinking about that for a quarter-second or two ... I think I can do without the fluttering bumper mojo.

I really don't want to live in DC. <..

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#11 16th January 2009, 12:25 AM

why not DC Dan?

***Dan*** · #12 16th January 2009, 12:33 AM

It's a bad neighborhood, Greg. Some kind of infection is running rampant up there. You'll find it in most national capitols, the infection rate is almost 100%, and the symptoms are truly hideous!

Fine statesmen and young interns go in ... and hardened politicians and desperate lobbyists come out. <..

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#13 16th January 2009, 12:38 AM

ohh ok that i didnt know . i always thought it was pretty clean .

***Dan*** · #14 16th January 2009, 12:51 AM

And speaking of places with strange attributes ... I'll leave you guys to figure this one out.

JN4OldSchool · #15 16th January 2009, 01:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Demz

i wonder why he had to have such an expensive car? i mean America is so much debt an yet they got him this car? why not a cheaper car with the same things. how else is america supposed to pay back the debt by giving the president a expensive car . the Prime Minister of Australia doesnt even get driven around in a expensive car like that . sure he has his own private jet an other stuff but im sure the president of the day would have a private Jet let alone car for himself be driven around in an other stuff.

You have us all standing in soup lines Greg, it doesnt work that way. The debt thing and the national balance is all just a state of mind. Yes, there is a recession and yes, it will get worse. Many folks are out of work now. But most of us go on the same as always, for instance, Dan got his truck. You would be surprised what America could muster up even now. As stretched as we seem to be, if we had to go into Iran or Korea we could easily do it. Same as disaster relief for anything that happens to come along. Without trying to get political the short answer is we will not pay off the debt. We will trade the balance and this is no problem. We still have among the most bountiful resources in the world. It will all end someday and we are currently making some fairly fatal mistakes. Maybe this next administration will fix these, maybe not. But for now life goes on as normal. For those out a job you either sink or swim, it has always been this way.