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This beautiful machine has 180 horses, a 0-60 time of 6.2 seconds, and gets 42 miles per gallon of………diesel.  That’s right, it has a 1.8L TDI (TurboDiesel Injection) motor that gets mileage comparable to a Prius and better than any American made hybrid vehicle.  When you look at the production cost of a hybrid, along with the negative environmental effects of discarding toxic batteries after about five years, a clean burning, efficient diesel begins to make a lot more sense.  Plus, this little machine is soooo sexy.  I hope they make it.  More on this beauty at Jalopnik

I thought my first blog entry would be something sexy, but unsexy thoughts preoccupy my mind.  I have been doing a lot of thinking about this stimulus bill, and I am sure some of you have been preoccupied as well.  With all this bullshit about a NY Post cartoonist depicting the writer of the bill as being a monkey, I decided to delve into into the numbers and find out exactly how unintelligent and monkey-like the logic behind the bill actually is. Also, I want to know who the organ grinders are.  More after the jump.

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