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Can't help it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnkefjCES-4

Quote from: PenPho on July 18, 2011, 04:06:59 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on July 18, 2011, 04:00:10 PM

Quote from: PenPho on July 18, 2011, 03:57:38 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on July 18, 2011, 03:55:40 PM

Quote from: PenPho on July 18, 2011, 01:37:20 PM

Quote from: Fork on July 18, 2011, 01:32:50 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on July 18, 2011, 01:00:52 PM
Okay, since I'm one of those people who never got his hands dirty and learned a trade, I don't know dick about cars.  So I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who might have a bit more knowledge on the subject and can give me a little advice on this:

After our RAV4 got totaled in a nice little "incident" with a CTA bus, we're in the market for a new car.  She's of the opinion that she would be happy with another RAV4, but I noticed that a new RAV4 with a 6 cylinder engine (built for the next snowpacolypse) is only about $5,000 less than a 2008 Lexus RS350, which comes standard with a V6.  Given what I know about cars (nothing), I'm wondering if there is any real reason to spend the extra $5,000 on the 350 besides "I can look like a badass soccer mom".  Is there anything practically better about luxury cars?  At all?

If you have the means, the Lexus RX 450h gives you the same engine with better gas mileage.

Most luxury brands' CPO warranties are pretty much as good as new car warranties from mid-level dealers, so it all comes down to what you can afford - but going higher-end where possible will work out in the long run.

I hope I'm not overstepping here, but I'm pretty sure if he's looking at a 2008 350, then the 450h is not on the table, considering it didn't come out until the following year + additional hybrid fees.

That aside, have you considered maybe a Porsche? I hear those are nice.

Yep.  I want to keep the APR down to a low 89.9% when the debt ceiling doesn't get raised. 

It seems like the 2008 is the better deal, even though its got 35,000 miles on it--it comes with a 3-year, 100,000 mile warranty, which I can't even find on the new RAV4. 

This will be really useful for your daily commute to Minneapolis.

* I'd take the Lexus.

My current car has 105,000 miles on it.  I've had it for ten years.

I'm not questioning the 100,000 miles, I'm questioning the "3-years/100,000 miles, whichever comes first."

Yeah, same here.  Unless I magically tripled my yearly mileage, its not happening.  But hey, three years of warranty isn't terrible. 

Quote from: PenPho on July 18, 2011, 03:57:38 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on July 18, 2011, 03:55:40 PM

Quote from: PenPho on July 18, 2011, 01:37:20 PM

Quote from: Fork on July 18, 2011, 01:32:50 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on July 18, 2011, 01:00:52 PM
Okay, since I'm one of those people who never got his hands dirty and learned a trade, I don't know dick about cars.  So I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who might have a bit more knowledge on the subject and can give me a little advice on this:

After our RAV4 got totaled in a nice little "incident" with a CTA bus, we're in the market for a new car.  She's of the opinion that she would be happy with another RAV4, but I noticed that a new RAV4 with a 6 cylinder engine (built for the next snowpacolypse) is only about $5,000 less than a 2008 Lexus RS350, which comes standard with a V6.  Given what I know about cars (nothing), I'm wondering if there is any real reason to spend the extra $5,000 on the 350 besides "I can look like a badass soccer mom".  Is there anything practically better about luxury cars?  At all?

If you have the means, the Lexus RX 450h gives you the same engine with better gas mileage.

Most luxury brands' CPO warranties are pretty much as good as new car warranties from mid-level dealers, so it all comes down to what you can afford - but going higher-end where possible will work out in the long run.

I hope I'm not overstepping here, but I'm pretty sure if he's looking at a 2008 350, then the 450h is not on the table, considering it didn't come out until the following year + additional hybrid fees.

That aside, have you considered maybe a Porsche? I hear those are nice.

Yep.  I want to keep the APR down to a low 89.9% when the debt ceiling doesn't get raised.  

It seems like the 2008 is the better deal, even though its got 35,000 miles on it--it comes with a 3-year, 100,000 mile warranty, which I can't even find on the new RAV4.  

This will be really useful for your daily commute to Minneapolis.

* I'd take the Lexus.

My current car has 105,000 miles on it.  I've had it for ten years.

Quote from: PenPho on July 18, 2011, 01:37:20 PM

Quote from: Fork on July 18, 2011, 01:32:50 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on July 18, 2011, 01:00:52 PM
Okay, since I'm one of those people who never got his hands dirty and learned a trade, I don't know dick about cars.  So I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who might have a bit more knowledge on the subject and can give me a little advice on this:

After our RAV4 got totaled in a nice little "incident" with a CTA bus, we're in the market for a new car.  She's of the opinion that she would be happy with another RAV4, but I noticed that a new RAV4 with a 6 cylinder engine (built for the next snowpacolypse) is only about $5,000 less than a 2008 Lexus RS350, which comes standard with a V6.  Given what I know about cars (nothing), I'm wondering if there is any real reason to spend the extra $5,000 on the 350 besides "I can look like a badass soccer mom".  Is there anything practically better about luxury cars?  At all?

If you have the means, the Lexus RX 450h gives you the same engine with better gas mileage.

Most luxury brands' CPO warranties are pretty much as good as new car warranties from mid-level dealers, so it all comes down to what you can afford - but going higher-end where possible will work out in the long run.

I hope I'm not overstepping here, but I'm pretty sure if he's looking at a 2008 350, then the 450h is not on the table, considering it didn't come out until the following year + additional hybrid fees.

That aside, have you considered maybe a Porsche? I hear those are nice.

Yep.  I want to keep the APR down to a low 89.9% when the debt ceiling doesn't get raised. 

It seems like the 2008 is the better deal, even though its got 35,000 miles on it--it comes with a 3-year, 100,000 mile warranty, which I can't even find on the new RAV4. 

Okay, since I'm one of those people who never got his hands dirty and learned a trade, I don't know dick about cars.  So I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who might have a bit more knowledge on the subject and can give me a little advice on this:

After our RAV4 got totaled in a nice little "incident" with a CTA bus, we're in the market for a new car.  She's of the opinion that she would be happy with another RAV4, but I noticed that a new RAV4 with a 6 cylinder engine (built for the next snowpacolypse) is only about $5,000 less than a 2008 Lexus RS350, which comes standard with a V6.  Given what I know about cars (nothing), I'm wondering if there is any real reason to spend the extra $5,000 on the 350 besides "I can look like a badass soccer mom".  Is there anything practically better about luxury cars?  At all?

Kyle Farnsworth=5 saves. 

Quote from: Gilgamesh on April 05, 2011, 04:40:31 PM
3-2, high water mark.

Suck it, NL Central!

As I found out on the broadcast today, that's the high water mark since October 2009, actually.  That's a fucking kick in the balls. 

Prior and Peavy comparison isn't fair. 


The Cubs got more than 10 wins out of Mark Prior. 

And didn't give up players to get him, including a #2 starter. 

And didn't pay him $52 million. 





Schadenfreude is fung.

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on March 14, 2011, 09:56:24 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on March 10, 2011, 07:00:06 PM

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on March 10, 2011, 01:58:53 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on March 10, 2011, 01:36:59 PM

Most important thing you wrote and the single fact that everyone in a public position is afraid to discuss. 

Maybe the high profile people, but in public meetings I've attended and participated in, no one has shied away from stating that the single most correlating factor in academic achievement is if the student has married parents.

That's certainly socio-economic.

Its the central tenet to the manifesto sent out by Michelle Rhee and a collection of big-city superintendents that "As President Obama has emphasized, the single most important factor determining whether students succeed in school is not the color of their skin or their ZIP code or even their parents' income -- it is the quality of their teacher." 

At the policymaking level, no one is talking about socio-economics.  And it sucks.

Frankly, most of the big policy decisions are made by your local school board. They are talking about this.

As a resident of Chicago, I respectfully disagree.

Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on March 10, 2011, 01:58:53 PM

Quote from: fiveouts on March 10, 2011, 01:36:59 PM

Most important thing you wrote and the single fact that everyone in a public position is afraid to discuss. 

Maybe the high profile people, but in public meetings I've attended and participated in, no one has shied away from stating that the single most correlating factor in academic achievement is if the student has married parents.

That's certainly socio-economic.

Its the central tenet to the manifesto sent out by Michelle Rhee and a collection of big-city superintendents that "As President Obama has emphasized, the single most important factor determining whether students succeed in school is not the color of their skin or their ZIP code or even their parents' income -- it is the quality of their teacher." 

At the policymaking level, no one is talking about socio-economics.  And it sucks.

Quote from: morpheus on March 10, 2011, 01:29:17 PM

Quote from: Eli on March 10, 2011, 10:29:57 AM
This has been making the rounds a bit and while correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation, it's still worth pointing out:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/02/unions

QuoteOnly 5 states do not have collective bargaining for educators and have deemed it illegal. Those states and their ranking on ACT/SAT scores are as follows:

South Carolina – 50th
North Carolina – 49th
Georgia – 48th
Texas – 47th
Virginia – 44th

If you are wondering, Wisconsin, with its collective bargaining for teachers, is ranked 2nd in the country.

Garbage.  The data is over 10 years old; if you compile it for the most recent school year - 2010 - there is no pattern.  Even if the pattern did hold over time, which it doesn't, there are much more important factors determining ACT/SAT scores, such as socio-economic background and simply the rate of test-taking.  If more people take the test (as a percentage of the total school population cohort) then the scores go lower.

Heck, ACT and SAT the College Board both caution against comparing scores by state because the comparisons are so faulty.  And, the post that the Economist linked to has since been amended to say the study is crap.

EDIT: I forgot that the SAT is not eponymously named.

Most important thing you wrote and the single fact that everyone in a public position is afraid to discuss. 

Quote from: Internet Apex on February 25, 2011, 01:48:25 PM

Quote from: BH on February 25, 2011, 01:10:04 PM
Nothing on Lovie's 2 year extension?

I'm sure Frosenbloom has something on it. What word from Slezak though?

Whatever he writes, it will be rife with WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL PUNS! 

Quote from: PANK! on February 01, 2011, 02:56:58 PM

Quote from: Fork on February 01, 2011, 02:53:41 PM
MY BUDDY'S BROTHER-IN-LAW JUST SAW JAY CUTLER SHOVELING HIS SIDEWALK!!!

The nerve of that guy!

That guy probably only shovels half the sidewalk, then quits!  AMIRITE?

The Republican response would have been much better if they saved us all the time and distilled it to its singular main point:

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Quote from: J. Walter Weatherman on January 24, 2011, 10:56:42 AM
Ochocinco is the shit...

http://twitter.com/ochocinco/status/29559098009722880

QuoteTurned on Espn and reading the tweets current/former players have sent out based on Cutlers injury.what if he's really hurt bad :( I'm sad

http://twitter.com/ochocinco/status/29561163750580225

Quote@JayCutler6 Jay if you want to go all out Call Of Duty style war on some people let me know, I'm cocked (pause) and loaded #1LUV

If he's got anything left in the tank, fuck it, bring him here.  Might distract the media from the 24/7 SMIRK WATCH.