Yes, a very sweet ride if you can afford the $100,000+ price tag. Of course, the company is going bankrupt so you had better grab one while you can. They rank right up there with Solyndra with respect to wasting taxpayer dollars.

Crawfish2, if he plans to repeal the 22nd amendment, he had better get busy. Not only does such a piece of legislation need a 2/3 majority of both houses, but it also needs to be ratified by 2/3 of the states before it becomes the law. While The One would probably get both coasts, I doubt that he would win enough states in fly-over country to make it happen. Of course, he could run Michelle. Wouldn't that be great?

I suppose the term "garden variety" depends on whether you are giving or receiving that "garden variety" slap. As someone who received quite a few of those so called "garden variety" slaps from my ex-husband, I will say that being on the receiving end of one seemed like quite a big deal to me. It was one of the factors that caused me to file for divorce. Many women don't go that far because they feel they have no means of escape. I would suggest that someone give Ole Joe a few of those "garden variety" slaps to see if they knock some sense into him, but I suspect it is hopeless.

Sheldon mispronounces many words. It is part of the humor of the character. He is supposed to be a brilliant scientist with Asperger's syndrome. He displays many of the characteristic behaviors of the disorder. If you are not familiar with the disorder, I would suggest you look it up.

Obviously, you know all about the science that these young men are referencing, don't you rgama? Please spare me the sophomoric comments about conservatives and their lack of appreciation for science. My husband and I are as conservative as they come. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from a top 10 school for CS and I am in the last stages of finishing my PsyD in clinical psychology. We probably get the science jokes a lot better than you do.

We cut out movies. We spend less eating out at our favorite local Thai restaurant than we spent on 2 movie tickets and popcorn and a drink. Besides, that local restaurant treats us like family and cooks our food just the way we like it, Thai spicy. It is a family run business that needs the income. We do movies on Vudu or Amazon and pop our own popcorn at home. Renting a movie to stream for $6 is a lot cheaper than $20 for 2 movie tickets and another $10 to $15 for popcorn and a soda to share.

And the high def picture we get over the air is not compressed like it is on any cable or satellite service so we get a better picture quality with our antenna. We have more than paid for the equipment to set up our system in the savings we have seen in our budget since we left DirecTV. We were paying almost $100 a month to them and now we spend about $30 a month in the various subscription services we use like Hulu and Netflix.

We dropped cable and satellite services well over a year ago and went back to an antenna. We get all of the local networks plus a number of stations in our area such as a local ION station. For anything else, we use a small computer as our video server and stream stuff from Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and or the websites of providers like the History Channel. Are there things we can't get, yes. Do we miss them, no. Do we save lots of money over the what we were spending? Definitely yes. And HOAs cannot make you take down a antenna. FCC blocks that.

mulbery, it is fine that you are a caring person. I would ask you, how much are you willing to take out of your pocket that you could be spending to feed your children or improve their lives in some way in order to help pay that $32,000 emergency room bill? That is what taxation does. It takes money from you and sends it to the government so they can develop programs like Medicaid. We have poured billions upon billions of dollars into programs to help the poor. How many have moved out of poverty as a result? Why is that medical bill so high in the first place?

Ken, it sounds like you have been reading way too much progressive revisionist history to me. It is also quite unclear who you are referring to when you use the term, these people.