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SPOILER ALERT: 24 Hours of Spa {Autoblog}
Aug 5th 2008 8:21AM Short memory span, eh guys? Surely you are old enough to remember SpeedChannel before they were acquired by Fox. They did in fact televise DTM, FIA GT, and assorted other Euro series. I agree that their current lineup goes overboard on NASCAR but that's pretty much exactly what they said they would do.
"I'm sure that thousands of Americans would tune in to watch and enjoy MotoGP, WRC, DTM or LeMans."
There's your problem, Kitko. TV viewership needs millions of viewers, not thousands.
Champions League final in Moscow: The British are coming! The British are coming! {Gadling}
May 6th 2008 10:28AM Ignorant article by someone who obviously knows nothing about either football or hooliganism. 40,000 hooligans? Please. The English have a reputation for hooliganism (note: not the "British", as the Scots and Welsh are extremely well-behaved) but to suggest that all 40,000 traveling fans are hooligans is ludicrous.
VW also planning engine, transmission plant in the U.S. {Autoblog}
Jan 24th 2008 3:38PM SC actually lost out on some plants (MB in Tuscaloosa for one) because they weren't willing to offer such aggressive tax breaks after landing BMW. With high unemployment here, it would be great to bring in more high-tech manufacturing jobs.
Spy Shots: 2009 Mazda6 {Autoblog}
Mar 1st 2007 9:05AM Hopefully they won't add too much weight to the new model- that's one advantage of the current 6 that I'm not eager to give away.
Top Gear crew visits U.S.A., will never return again {Autoblog}
Feb 14th 2007 10:08AM The British are disgraceful. They were at one time a useful civilization, exporting scurvy and fat-legged pale girls all over the world. However, Queen Margaret Thatcher the Second, who was King of the Scots, impounded every toothbrush during the War of the Roses (1100 A.D.-7 B.C.). Soon all the British subjects in places like Indiana, Togo, and Upper China were rebelling against the heavy taxes on televisions (called "telly"), elevators (called "lifts"), and chips (called "deep fried potato biscuits with assorted flavorings, which come in a convenient packet").
After these primitive societies had thrown off the yoke of East Anglican rule, rejecting the time-honored British traditions of singing in the rain, inventing silly walks, and public vomiting, the Britannians were forced to accept their role as a European backwater, pitied by fat Danes and skinny Ayrabs alike. Soon the proud Anglo-Saxon military tradition was consigned to the rubbish heap of historical afterthought. They were soundly defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by a drunken anti-semite with his face painted blue.
Presently, the UK has annexed Great Brittania and most of Northern Ireland (called "Norn Earl"), except for the parts near France, which has threatened to invade and conquer the frog-eating, skirt-wearing Englanders.
P.S. Fat Frank Lampard is an embarrassment to the national squad.
Michelin lands $1.7b Pentagon contract {Autoblog}
Feb 2nd 2007 11:36AM I would have preferred to see Goodyear win this too, but keep in mind that Michelin employs over 23,000 people in North America and I doubt many of them will complain about new business.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: Silentbob, if you know as much about cars as you do the world economy and oil markets, you are obviously in the wrong place. You will dismiss me as a neocon warmonger (and I am neither), but surely you understand that A) our soldiers in Iraq aren't stationed at the oil fields- we could have invaded 5% of Iraq and controlled the oil fields, while staying completely out of Baghdad, Falluja, etc.; and B) it would have certainly been easier to invade Canada, Mexico, or Venezuela, all of which provide more oil to the U.S. than Iraq.
Autoblog Night Watch: Der Nürburgring {Autoblog}
Jan 23rd 2007 8:08AM I was skeptical that BMW is "...the only one that still tests every new model there" until I read the source.
MSNBC's Olbermann calls 24 'fear mongering' {TV Squad}
Jan 18th 2007 10:18AM I don't remember Olbermann crying about "Commander in Chief", and that portrayed something far scarier than nukes detonating in LA: a woman president. Maybe it was okay because her character was a Democrat, huh Keith? Did "the West Wing" bother him too badly? Why not, I wonder?
What a turd. He should stick to pompous baseball analysis because his political insight is laughable.
Your daily "Bill O'Reilly is nuts" moment {TV Squad}
Dec 21st 2006 4:33PM O'Reilly is a self-satisfied blowhard, and frequently delusional, but anyone who thinks the media isn't overwhelmingly liberal (about 9 to 1, at least in print media) is A) full of it and B) a liberal. Although these characteristics usually go hand-in-hand.
TV critics, News anchors, college professors, government employees, your Aunt Edna: all are liberals and all are tolerated but never liked.
Grits: versatile and delicious {Slashfood}
Sep 1st 2006 8:27AM Camille, I think you mean "grits are just", not "grits is..", but grits ain't anyway. Comparing grits to corn on the cob is like comparing chicken stock to chicken wings.
Also, grits don't have a "bad rap", and nobody calls them "hominy grits". Other than that, terrific post.
