Wow, that's the first thing I noticed too. I was hesitant to be the first comment though....wtf? That's disgusting.

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the minute that hog signs the papers for the mustang he'll think he is a Tom Selleck clone behind the wheel. Thats what cars are for, right?

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+100!



That was gross! I am a very buff 19 year old and as an American I get lumped into a category of fat ugly losers.

That will be my reason when I leave the USA; "There where too many fat people"

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Who the hell cares, do you act the same when people have AIDS or any other disease. I'm sick of people micromanaging everyone else's life

And if you're leaving the US for fat people, you'll be in for a big shock in other countries. Be sure to avoid the UK if you don't like hogs passing for women

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While obesity is a worldwide problem I find it amazing the number of Americans who'll go and whine about freedom when other people trying to take away their trans fats and make them exercise.
Nobody would need to even bug people about these things if they didn't decide to exercise their freedom by sitting on their asses drinking 64oz double gulps from 7-11 and growing into the size of a whale, then end up in the ER needing 5 people to come lift them onto a hospital bed so you can waste taxpayer money to keep you alive.
Freedom isn't the freedom to go and become a morbidly obese diabetic guys.

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If you really want to legislate away all the things in this world that put you in an early grave then let's also outlaw smoking, and drinking, and unprotected sex. Let's also make it illegal to spend less than an hour a day in a gym doing cardio. And heck, why stop there. Why not simply sterilize anyone with a hereditary disease? All current medical research suggests it's largely the same thing.

I also wonder how you'd come off if it was a picture of a cancer patient and you whined about how bald heads disgusted you. Or someone with psoriasis and you commented that he wouldn't have a problem if that dumbass just got some ointment. That's how most educated people view you now.

And for the record, as with smoking, obesity likely saves you money in the long run: http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/337/15/1052.

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That is exactly what I thought when I read the article.

And with USA tax payers sending billions upon billions to Detroit, they should all have free cars.

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Yikes - How many billions were sent to New York City? (and other financial HQ city)

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That was meant to be a reply to Hiro11....darn comment system...

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Michigan has always been a fairly financially conservative state, the people, the businesses, and the banks.

Despite the huge mess here with unemployment and foreclosures the state based banks and credit unions, with few exceptions, are solid. Plus, I think people here are a little more car knowledgeable and attentive to maintenance so aren't afraid to hang onto older vehicles until body rot wins or to buy older used cars cheap. My current everyday car, is a 1997 Escort wagon with 143K miles on it bought about two years ago for $1,600 with another $400 put into it. For that plus routine maintenance I expect to get another 100,000 miles out of it to match it with the 1994 Escort wagon that topped 250K miles before I got rid of it. (No, I don't make big bucks.)

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Kyle: "Whenever I read the word "Freep" I think "Free Republic," the racist website"

I know it's fashionable by liberals and progressives to just toss hate speech labels out there against anything they disagree with, but could you cite some examples to substantiate your allegation?

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From the Free Republic website http://www.freerepublic.com/home.htm:

Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government. Free Republic advocates a return to constitutionally limited government, reserving all government powers not expressly delegated by the constitution to the United States to the States respectively, or the people, emphasizing sovereign state governments, local government, self-government and self-rule, while restricting government powers to only those enumerated in the constitution and maximizing individual rights and liberty as originally envisioned and established by our Founding Fathers and secured and defended by the blood of patriots and statesmen for over two hundred years.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

— The Declaration of Independence, In Congress, July 4, 1776


Is this the "racist" site you are referring to???

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