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idence suggests that he just tapped the brakes probably so it appears undisputed that when the driver called 9 1 1 he was instructed to put the car in neutral but refused he claims he was afraid it would accidentally slip into reverse and cause the car to flip now that s plain stupid it s easy to put a prius into neutral and it s impossible to slam any car from full throttle into reverse you can severely damage your transmission but you won t suddenly flip the car just to be on the safe side we practiced putting our prius into neutral the other day no problem we easily coasted to a stop still we can sympathize with someone who s car has done something it shouldn t and who fears that if he does something else it ll also do something weird and wild in any event someone too scared to take the simple step of putting the car in neutral after the 9 1 1 operator advises it is also going to be timid on the brakes in this case we think something went wrong with the accelerator but also that the driver compounded the problem which is how this became such a spectacular incident sudden acceleration is a vexing issue for auto safety regulators over the years the national highway traffic safety administration has received complaints of sudden or unintended acceleration for almost every make and model of vehicle on the road some vehicles get more complaints than others but most cases end up being driver error sometimes a floormat gets involved and sometimes something gets stuck in the pedal but usually the driver stomps on the gas thinking it s the brake with millions of drivers driving billions of miles it happens but we don t think that s what happened in the california incident furthermore once you get publicity for a particular vehicle being associated with unintended acceleration the number of complaints goes up dramatically believe us pick any car and if nhtsa reported tomorrow that it was having toyota like problems you d have drivers coming out of the woodwork saying yeah happened to me there s some speculation that toyota s problems have to do with the electronics in their vehicles maybe but we d take that with a huge grain of salt absent solid evidence if there is such a problem it should be replicable and so far no one has replicated any such defect one problem toyota does have in many vehicles the manufacturer has programmed it so that if both the accelerator and brake are depressed at the same time the brakes will override toyota evidently has not used that feature although it says it will now we suspect they ll wish they d adopted brake override some time ago anyway if you see us whizzing by in our prius give us a wave we may be able to cut a good 2 hours off our drive to the beach in sc this summer posted by x curmudgeon at 6 33 pm no comments wednesday march 10 2010 daily show gaywatch virginia the daily show with jon stewart mon thurs 11p 10c www thedailyshow com daily show full episodes political humor health care reform posted by x curmudgeon at 9 00 pm no comments tuesday march 09 2010 the church of arlington county who would have thought that liberal arlington county would end up with it s own state sponsored church that s the conclusion of many of our neighbors in lyon village where new signs are sprouting up like mushrooms after rain asking should tax dollars build churches it s a good question the dispute centers around a plan to transform the first baptist church of clarendon the church with a dwindling congregation and facilities falling into disrepair came up with a plan a few years ago to take advantage of the prime land it s sitting on in the heart of the popular clarendon neighborhood the idea was to demolish the existing church most of it add a high rise apartment tower and use the financing to renovate and rebuild the church this of course was in the hey dey of the real estate boom when anything was possible the only problem was that the land was zoned for a seven story building but the church s consultants said they needed at least 10 stories to make the project economically feasible i e to have enough money to rebuild the church so they approached arlington county with a scheme to increase the allowed height of the project in exchange for including 70 affordable housing units the county bought in pledging 4 5 million and making the zoning change happen despite universal objections from neighbors in two story houses that would be dwarfed by the mammoth new building since then the original funding has fallen through forcing the county to increase it s share to 13 1 million more than the private investors in the project are putting up as the facts about this project get out opposition is spreading here at the curmudgeon we certainly think the economics are suspicious we re not fans of the county building affordable housing in the first place we d much rather see the county negotiate with private developers to get affordable housing in exchange for zoning trade offs and use rent vouchers to help lower income families afford apartments out of their range needless to say for 13 million arlington could subsidize the rent for many families for many many years in any event it s clear that the baptist church project has become a classic boondoggle regardless of however well intentioned it might have been although we re convinced the church s main goal was it s own self preservation not affordable housing county board members should drive through lyon village and take a look at the signs they re going to keep spreading and may become a true political liability as the extent of coming budget cuts become more widely known it s not too late the county can back out of this one for more information put together by opponents of the project who to be fair are primarily motivated because they don t want such a large project looming over them go to askthecounty com posted by x curmudgeon at 2 16 pm no comments virginia gop launches new jihad against gays if virginia s new attorney general ken cuccinelli had openly campaigned on an anti gay platform he would have lost the election now that he s in office however the fairfax republican has launched a jihad against gays in the state recently the ag sent a letter to universities in the commonwealth advising them to back off of campus policies designed to prohibit discrimination against gays the cooch could have chosen to do nothing on this but he deliberately stuck his nose into it as if there aren t more important law enforcement issues in the state students are taking this lying down the washington post reported today that student groups on many campuses are organizing rallies to protest richmond s action this is where the virginia gop starts to get itself into big trouble there are a lot of moderate and independent voters who would side with the republicans on tax and fiscal issues the types of issues gov mcdonnell tried to focus on in his campaign for some reason however the right wing of the party allied with so called fundamentalist christian groups is at least as much interested in the politics of hate their forebears resisted the civil rights movement they resisted the women s rights movement and now they re gay bashers mind you this isn t just people against gay marriage nope the cooch and his cronies including quite a few gop legislators want to make it lawful to discriminate against gays across the board soley for their sexual orientation we know a lot of real christians and they re not into hating anyone just like most real muslims are peaceful frankly the religious extremists in virginia are no better than those in iraq they may not be using car bombs to get their point across but the actions of people like cuccinelli are equally terroristic intended to intimidate another group on the basis of who they are if the ag keeps on with his jihad we can look for virginia republicans to lose their recent gains quite quickly let s hope the state s students keep the issue alive posted by x curmudgeon at 1 44 pm 2 comments friday march 05 2010 the pat tillman tragedy we just finished a terrific book where men win glory the odyssey of pat tillman by jon krakauer krakauer is a great writer whose books include into thin air and into the wild in where men he explores the tragic death of former nfl defensive back pat tillman who left the nfl at the peak of his career to join the army after the 9 11 attacks as an army ranger tillman was sent to afghanistan where he was killed in a friendly fire incident the details of which initially were covered up by the military krakauer s book is a thorough examination of what happened as well as of the intensely interesting life of tillman the book is also a reminder of just how awful the bush presidency was before serving in afghanistan tillman did a tour in iraq there he played a bit role in the jessica lynch rescue operation krakauer reveals new details of the lynch case at least details we d never heard before that reveal the depths of cynicism of the bush administration you may recall that lynch was the young woman wounded in a battle with iraqi soldiers after her convoy was ambushed she was captured and held in a hospital in the city of an nasiryah until her dramatic rescue by u s special forces or so that was the story we were told in fact lynch s convoy got lost after a collossal set of blunders it was eventually fired upon by iraqi troops who military intelligence had said weren t there contrary to stories that lynch fought it out with iraqi troops until she was wounded she never fired her weapon she was injured when her humvee collided with another american truck the iraqis took her to their best local hospital where she was treated well and given excellent care several of the doctors at the hospital contacted american forces to let them know where she was at one point they even tried to deliver her to an american base in an ambulance but the ambulance was fired upon and had to turn back at the time things weren t going too well for the americans there had been a number of friendly fire incidents and a force of marines in nasiriyah had spent an entire day shooting at each other with considerable fatalities the bushies needed some good news a bush pr operative on the ground in iraq jim wilkinson seized on the lynch situation as a means to manufacture that good news instead of sending a unit in to pick lynch up he had the military commit nearly 1000 special forces troops including tillman in a supporting role accompanied by a video crew to storm the hospital and rescue ms lynch he then helped fabricate an entire story about her capture which the media couldn t get enough of tillman saw through the whole thing at the time unlike many soldiers who served in iraq he never thought it was a legitimate war he wanted to be in afghanistan instead in any event krakauer has some other wilkinson exploits that ought to nauseate you all of this is by way of prelude to what happened in afghanistan after tillman was killed his own brother was in the same ranger unit but didn t witness what happened the other men in the unit were instructed not to talk to him about it and tillman s family did not learn that he was killed by friendly fire for several weeks after his death meanwhile bush and the military who were aware of the circumstances made the most of tillman s fame while they covered up the facts as long as they could it s a fascinating read one that will make you so glad that bush cheney rumsfeld rove and their merry band of lying incompetents are gone it will also make you very sad for tillman his sweet wife and his family posted by x curmudgeon at 4 57 pm no comments thursday march 04 2010 key vote in virginia senate on one gun a month less than three years after the virginia tech massacre and just a few months after a man in southwest virginia gunned down several relatives and caused a massive police manhunt at large cost to local and state taxpayers virginia legislators are busily dismantling the woefully few restrictions on guns in the state you can bet that relatives of the va tech victims and survivors are furious over this but the gun nut lobby could give a damn those victims are just collateral damage of the freedom to own guns and take them wherever you damn well please including now bars today the virginia senate holds a crucial vote on whether to repeal one of the remaining restrictions the so called one gun a month rule that law was enacted a number of years ago with support from then legislator bob mcdonnell to stem virginia s reputation as the supplier of choice for guns used in the murderous drug wars going on in cities up and down the east coast mcdonnell nows supports repeal of the law arguing it is ineffectual bullshit cite some data guns used in murders in various large cities are no longer being routinely traced back to virginia gun shops as they were in the past the murder rate in big cities is way down what exactly is the need for repealing the law the gun nuts don t have enough toys to play with already let s hope democrats in the senate chamber have the balls to stand up to the gun lobby on this one what s next the gun lobby will be taking aim at restrictions on automatic weapons triggering a new nationwide arms race heck why not let everyone carry around rocket propelled grenade launchers while we re at it just what we want to see at our local starbucks posted by x curmudgeon at 9 29 am 2 comments tuesday march 02 2010 national geographic and xm radio flunk accountability tests time for a bit of a curmudgeonly rant yesterday we received from national geographic a video that was part of some promotional trial package they sold us over the phone the phone call was a few weeks ago and we had forgotten the details of the promotion but we knew it was a free trial yet when we opened the package there was an invoice nothing about any free trial so we called nat l geo up and asked why we were being charged for a free trial oh you signed up for a 14 day free trial after that you pay the invoice amount which is still half off said the enthusiastic lady on the other end we re sorry but the invoice should clearly state the terms of the offer and be explicit about what to do if we don t want the videos being offered since the invoice was misleading we decided to cancel sight unseen not a good way to treat your customers especially a reputable organization like national geographic the lady graciously told us we could keep the video or donate it to your local library if they keep selling stuff this way our library will be awash in videos on to xm radio a couple years ago we purchased a home xm radio unit turns out it doesn t work too well difficult reception from the satellite we used it less and less and now darned if we even know where the thing is we were then reminded that our subscription was about to renew automatically so we went online to cancel it turns out you can do almost anything online with 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