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To: Apollo 13
Well, that's just the problem, isn't it? The Model T — whose mass production technique was the work of engineer William C. Klann, who had visited a slaughterhouse's "disassembly line" — conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator. A century later, the consequences of putting every living soul on gas-powered wheels are piling up, from the air over our cities to the sand under our soldiers' boots

Oh brother.....give it a rest

3 posted on 07/11/2008 4:15:27 AM PDT by central_va (Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
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To: central_va; Apollo 13

Oh yeah, but it get’s worse. It seems like every other thing they wrote is about how irresponsible America is in it’s “unquenchable lust for oil.” Thanks Time, for reminding me AGAIN AND AGAIN why I don’t buy your crap.


5 posted on 07/11/2008 4:16:53 AM PDT by EarthBound (Ex Deo,gratia. Ex astris,scientia (Who the hell do I vote for now?))
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To: central_va

Nah -
it’s all written in good clean fun, and irony. I bet the authors themselves are car nuts driving beautiful vehicles.


6 posted on 07/11/2008 4:17:42 AM PDT by Apollo 13
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To: central_va
"...The Model T ...conferred to Americans the notion of automobility as something akin to natural law, a right endowed by our Creator..."

The communist cockmonkeys at Time/CNN never rest.

11 posted on 07/11/2008 4:29:35 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Hussein Obama for Caliph 2008!)
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To: central_va

Yeah, putting the Model T on this list was a joke especially for the stupid reasons given.


13 posted on 07/11/2008 4:30:49 AM PDT by Always Right (Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?)
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To: central_va

Classic liberal reasoning. He spouts all the nonsense about cars being evil, but much of the article contains lines like

“In order to compensate for power-sapping emissions controls required in the U.S., the car’s primary export market, Jaguar discontinued the reliable 4.2-liter six for an anchor-heavy 5.3-liter V12, which was a total bitch to try to keep in tune and made the car nose-heavy besides.”

I’m always amazed how when you point stuff like that out to them, they look at you like you are crazy. It’s like their brains short circuit.


22 posted on 07/11/2008 5:07:02 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: central_va

The Left never rests. They wake up every morning believing they are saving the World.

I am reminded of a purportedly true story. In the 1920’s, a “sociologist” (sociology was new back then) was doing a study of living conditions in rural America. He was interviewing one woman in her home, which he duly noted had no bathtub. He mentioned that to the woman, who acknowledged that was so.

“You have no bathtub”, he said, “but you have an automobile. Why is that?”

“Because I can’t go to town in a bathtub.”


51 posted on 07/11/2008 7:15:46 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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