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Have a good weekend! If I had a gun to my head, I'd say Steelers by 3 in a surprisingly low-scoring game.
“We need a great deal more tolerance for the other guy’s point of view,” Bond said. “Not everybody comes from the same constituency as a majority-white homogenous district in the South where all people care about is keeping their guns and taxes.”
Newsom's time as mayor has prepared him for a dramatic fight. Earlier this month he escorted a NEWSWEEK reporter down Market Street, near city hall. Most everyone recognized him—and had something to say. Some were fawning. "I just have to ask you for a picture," said one woman, " 'cause you're the sexiest mayor I've ever seen." Newsom smiled for the camera and demurred: "It's all relative when you're talking about mayors." Others were less fawning. "F––– you, Gavin," a man shouted across a busy intersection. "Get out of my life." Everyone thought they could talk to the mayor as if they knew him, some too well. "Keep getting the p–––y, Gavin," shouted one admiring citizen.LOLz! Hard to imagine someone shouting "Keep getting the pussy" at Mayor T. M. Franklin Cownie of Des Moines. Although, Christ, Franklin might be the biggest poonhound on the Mississippi, I don't know.
Friends—can I call you friends?—it's time to drop the attitude: There is no longer any good reason to avoid Facebook. The site has crossed a threshold—it is now so widely trafficked that it's fast becoming a routine aide to social interaction, like e-mail and antiperspirant. It's only the most recent of many new technologies that have crossed over this stage. For a long while—from about the late '80s to the late-middle '90s, Wall Street to Jerry Maguire—carrying a mobile phone seemed like a haughty affectation. But as more people got phones, they became more useful for everyone—and then one day enough people had cell phones that everyone began to assume that you did, too. Your friends stopped prearranging where they would meet up on Saturday night because it was assumed that everyone would call from wherever they were to find out what was going on. From that moment on, it became an affectation not to carry a mobile phone; they'd grown so deeply entwined with modern life that the only reason to be without one was to make a statement by abstaining. Facebook is now at that same point—whether or not you intend it, you're saying something by
staying away.
It has LED tail lamps and 16'' alloy wheels. It also posses illuminated wing mirrors. The napa leather seats,brushed aluminium finish, 3-spoke steering wheel, and 6cd-mp3 player with 8 speakers makes Passat a superb stuff. Headlamp with self cleaning facility,wipers with rain sensors, heatable leather seat, electro mechanic parking break, cruise control, park sensor, 8 airbags,ESP and ABS are the other peculiarities of Passat.
DRIVING
VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT SPECIFICATIONS | |
ENGINE | 1968cc, 4 cylinder, Diesel |
MAX. POWER | 140 bhp @ 400 rpm |
MAX. TORQUE | 320 Nm @ 1750-2500 rpm |
GEAR TRANSMISSION | 6 speed automatic |
SUSPENSION | (Front)Independent Mac Pherson struts (Rear)4 Link Coil Spring |
BRAKES | (Front & Rear) Ventilated Discs |
TYRES | 215/55 R16, Radial |
L X W X H | 4765 X 1820 X 1472(mm) |
WHEEL BASE | 2709 (mm) |
KERB WEIGHT | 1476 kg |
TANK CAPACITY | 70 Litres |
PRICE | Rs. 24.81 lakhs (Kerala Ex Showroom) |