Comments on: Ford’s Latest TV Commercial

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:52:53 +0000

Yes, and we’ve used that when we’ve missed an episode. But I have to pay for cable anyway. I’ve tried to convince GoddessJ that it’s not cost-effective several times, but she insists that we have it regardless.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:29:19 +0000

You know you can watch the Daily Show and the Cobert Report ad-free? I used to get The Daily Show on iTunes before it became available for free on its own website, and the Colbert Report is similarly available. Lots cheaper than paying for cable when I don’t care about TV anyway.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:43:18 +0000

He was pretty happy with his Escort, of course, the Escort was half-Mazda really as far as the parts go, which is why it’s good. (This was about a decade and a half ago, I don’t know what he drives now as when he visits he arrives via train. BTW, I know two of my half-siblings now own Japanese cars.)

By: Head Geek

Head Geek — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:25:14 +0000

Most "foreign" cars in the US are actually made in North America. And you might be surprised at how many "American" cars are actually made in Mexico or Canada. And the parts can come from just about anywhere in the world.

An "American car" simply means that the company that built it was incorporated in the US. Nothing else.

If your father wants to gamble his money on the claim that US automakers have improved, that's his prerogative. I'll wait until I see how they hold up over the long haul.

By: Ploni Almoni

Ploni Almoni — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:27:33 +0000

My Dad got a Ford after his relatives in Dayton, OH, a town with all of the big three auto makers (some of them work for Chrysler) got angry at him for driving a Mazda. There they take “buy American” seriously, drive a foreign car into a big-three automaker’s factory parking lot and your tires will get slashed.