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Ford recalls 470,000 Mustangs

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it is recalling 470,000 Ford Mustangs from the 2005-2008 model years to recalibrate how forcefully the air bag deploys on the front passenger side of the car. Internal testing showed the air bag could injure a small, unbelted passenger, said Ford spokesman Wesley Sherwood. The recall was posted on the Web site of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Sherwood said the fix would address “a very rare scenario,” and there were no reports of injuries or accidents tied to the recall.

State House Transportation Committee Chairman Buffie McFadyen (D-Pueblo West): I am a fucking idiot.

Colorado: Legislators Eye Millions in Speeding Ticket Revenue

Doubled fines and freeway speed cameras could help balance the Colorado state budget because politicians lack the balls to do their jobs.

State House Transportation Committee Chairman Buffie McFadyen (D-Pueblo West) introduced the [increased] fine legislation as well as a second measure that would make “work zone” speed traps mandatory. Under the proposal, photo radar would generate automated citations from speeding drivers and a “move over” provision would be used to cite the motorists who are not speeding. McFadyen is using the tragic death of freeway worker Charles Mather to promote the concept of lowering speed limits and doubling fines in anything designated as a work zone up to four hours before any actual road work is done. The mandatory traps would be put in place no matter how minor the work and regardless of whether it involved any potential hazards or not. The law even allows warning signs to be posted on moving vehicles to create a roving zone with the enhanced penalties.

Thanks for not speeding. Here’s your ticket anyway. The workers whose safety we have ensured due to the fact that they are not actually here thank you as well.

Colorado used to be such a nice laid back place. Where the hell is Roddy Piper to put an end to this bullshit?

And I don’t want to single anybody out in this area, but, you know, some people sit at home and they watch TV and they watch radio and they “blog” about certain “things,” and they think they know what they’re talking about, and they think they have sources. They have no sources. They make stuff up. They’re toads. They’re little toads. Actually, they’re pimples on the behind of the greater body politic in this country and in this city (everyone in the studio cackles for no reason). And because, because they have access to airwaves and three or four people read them, they think, ‘Oh, I’m very important.’  In fact, in fact, if a huge dumpster landed on their mother’s house (cackling), and got all the way into the basement and crushed them (more cackling), nobody would care. Nobody would miss them. They provide nothing good, no service that’s any good at all. They, they are, they are, they are sucking mole rats (more cackling), and that’s the nicest I can be to them. But because, because they have a name, or, you know, because they get feedback from others, you know, they think they’re very important.

Tony Kornheiser, owned by irony 

10 days ago was my 4th birthday. Several million hits later, here I am.

[So long as in "it's been so long," not as in "goodbye." Better luck next millennium.]

Impeach Bush, Fire Millen. As fresh now as it was in the beginning.

Ouch.

Which is not the same as saying it’s a good idea.

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