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Kanye West disrespected Taylor Swift?

 

At an award show. She was accepting an award when he jumped on stage and said that he thought Beyonce should have won. Then he went on Ellen and called himself a "soldier of culture", because apparently Taylor Swift won due to racism. He's a lunatic. And people look up to him!!!

 

Remember the "Fishsticks/Fish dicks" episode of South Park?

 

Who's this Russell Dickerson chick you speak of?

 

you did have quite the mix and variety on your phone at the camp
don't recall hearing any Rollins band though

 

No, unfortunately. I wish I had kept up with that show. Every time I see a clip on YouTube or something, I laugh my ass off.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vn2xrSG24w

 

I was laughing to myself when it went from a K-pop song to Johnny Nash or something, and nobody even blinked. Good crowd!

 

a blast from the past...


https://www.csmonitor.com/1981/0320/032039.html


Reagan driven to cut Japanese auto imports
March 20, 1981

• By Harry B. Ellis Staff correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

WASHINGTON
All signs point toward fewer Japanese cars entering the United States in the future, which means that some Americans will win and others will lose. President Reagan is under compelling pressure -- from Congress as well as the automobile industry -- somehow to persuade the Japanese to reduce the number of cars they send to eager American buyers.

With imports so far this year running above the 1.9 million unit pace of 1980 , critics want the number of Hondas, Toyotas, Datsuns, and other Japanese makes cut by several hundred thousand, at least.

American consumers would suffer, experts agree, because Japanese cars would cost more and so would domestic models, if Detroit followed earlier practice and boosted sticker prices under cover of this protection.

Beleaguered US carmakers, by contrast, would gain a bit of time to woo American buyers into showrooms to buy their own smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.

Thursday Mr. Reagan met with his Cabinet-level automotive task force, which -- after long and divisive internal debates -- is due to make recommendations to the President.


"If [Reagan] decides to do nothing," said Rep. James R. Jones (D) of Oklahoma , chairman of the House Budget Committee, "Congress by fall will pass a bill invoking restraint, putting some kind of limits on imports -- a bill which the President either must sign or veto."

Everyone on the President's task force, Even those who favor voluntary restraints, is believed to oppose mandatory import curbs decreed by Congress.

To head off such curbs -- which might inch the US and Japan into the beginnings of a trade war -- the White House wants the Japanese government, under Reagan's nudging, to compel Japan's mighty car producers to cut back on their US shipments.

A warning that even such voluntary restraint might lead to a trade war comes to President Reagan from the West German minister of economics, Count Otto Lambsdorff.

"If you start restraining imports," Count Lambsdorff told White House officials, "it is very hard to stop. It would be a first step in the wrong direction."

Already Italy, France, and Britain in varying ways restrict the import of Japanese cars. West Germany does not.


But Lambsdorff said, according to a White House source, that US voluntary curbs would impel the Europeans to seek similar restraints, to prevent Japanese cars originally destined for Americans from coming to Europe.

Because Japan imports almost all of its oil and other raw materials, plus huge quantities of food, the Japanese depend on a booming tide of exports to meet import bills.

Even so, the Japanese balance of payments is running deeply in the red, which makes it hard for the Japanese government to order firms to sell less to major markets like the United States.

Amid all the turmoil, it seems increasingly clear that President Reagan -- to avoid formal quotas or tariffs -- will persuade the Japanese to slow down their car sales to the US.


"The shame of it is," said a top Reagan official, "that reducing the inflow by 300,000 cars or so may take the heat off the domestic industry to do other things it should, to take corrective steps."


THis, in Lambsdorff's view, could lead to a nibbling away of free-trade principle hammered out by noncommunist nations and embodied in the Multilateral Trade Negotiations, ratified by Congress.

Meanwhile, according to a top Reagan administration official, mixed signals have come from Tokyo. A statement from the Japanese minister of international trade favoring a slowdown of car shipments to the US appeared later to be contradicted by the foreign minister.

"The Japanese," said a senior US trade official, "clearly don't know their own mind
Reagan is expected to press US automakers -- in return for limited protection -- to go further and faster than so far indicated in restructuring the industry to regain a competitive edge.

Already, workers at Chrysler have agreed to pay cuts. Workers at Ford, and possibly General Motors, may b e asked to do the same.

 

That is fucking awesome!

Was that a goliath grouper he was making out with?

 

One of my role models, been a fan since I had Damaged on vinyl. You have to read "Get In The Van" by him..

 

One of my all time favorite car songs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o_8VhwJc4Ts

 

I just Googled "Goliath Grouper" and it would appear yes...

 

Great White...that might be the worst song in the history of worst songs but I mean hey if you like it

 

It's one of my goals in life to catch one. I might hire a guide in Florida this winter just to see one in person.

 

Don't disrespect the classics!

 

That’s a pretty liberal usage of the word classic

 

Lol!

 

My 2004 2.7 RC has 192,500 on it. So far?
4 Batteries
One water pump under warranty at 60,000
Brakes done under warranty at 60,000
I replaced all the suspension at 154,000 because even when new the stock suspension is questionable. Mine was very worn out.
Outer tie rods at around 170,000.

That's it other than normal fluid changes. These things routinely last 250,000+. I wouldn't worry about it. Unless you beat it constantly. There are those on here with 500,000+ on the 2.7.

Mine still runs like new except for the usual slightly rough idle at times which every 2.7 seems to develop once they get some miles on them.