The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has come out with a amazing new report. Apparently, when a larger vehicle crashes into a smaller one, the smaller takes more damage. I am so glad I have the lapdog for the auto industry to teach me about the basics of physics. Yes, the IIHS took the current [...]
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IIHS spits out latest propaganda regarding small cars
April 14th, 2009 
Chris Doelle 
Posted in Culture, Environment, News, Politics, Travel & Entertainment 
Tags: automobiles, cars, fuel economy, iihs, insurance institute of highway safety, microcar, obama, propaganda, suv 
No Comments »Rating the debate
September 27th, 2008 Chris Doelle It is time once again for my debate report card. I have been doing these for some time when an important debate is aired. The criteria for grading is purely based on my opinion. Every time a candidate says the right thing (i.e. something I agree with) he gets a check in the “Right” column. [...]
Posted in Business & Money, Environment, Health & Fitness, Movie Reviews & TV, News, Politics, Video Tags: 2008, afghanistan, barack obama, debate, economy, energy, foreign relations, iran, iraq, john mccain, presidential debate, russia, senator 1 Comment »I understand why they do it… but still.
September 20th, 2008 Chris Doelle I find it interesting how all the commercial areas of my part of Houston got up and running extremely fast. If it was a place that had something for sale, power was restored right away. After that, it seemed that the “high dollar” parts of town got their power restored. I guess us “po folks” [...]
Posted in Business & Money, Environment, News, Weather Tags: ass whitening, electricity, hurricane ike, News, panera bread, Weather 1 Comment »Outages in my area expected to last until Monday
September 18th, 2008 Chris Doelle According to the Centerpoint Energy website, the zip code where my house in Houston is sitting has 55% outage right now and is not expected to come back up until Monday. The website has some very useful maps and links if you or someone you know is in an affected area.
I know you have seen it, but I did this for me
September 18th, 2008 Chris Doelle Tina Fey’s representation of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for the premiere of Saturday Night Live’s new season was so freakin’ hilarious. I originally missed it because although I do TiVo new episodes of SNL, all of Houston’s regular programming was preempted by Hurricane Ike reporting. As a result I had both SNL and [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Movie Reviews & TV, News, Politics, Weather Tags: hillary clinton, sarah palin, snl, tina fey No Comments »Ike, Ike, Baby!
September 13th, 2008 Chris Doelle I have gotten several emails, twitters, etc. from friends around the country wondering how I weathered (pun intended) Hurrican Ike. A lot of them had no clue that I have relocated from Houston to San Marcos, but some that were well aware of it just heard “hurricane hits Texas” and figured that means we are [...]
Posted in Environment, Friends & Family, News, Weather Tags: enchanted rock, Football, fredericksburg, houston, hurricane ike, power, rain, san marcos, texas, Weather No Comments »
