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By using inventory data and the average number of days each vehicle sites on the lot, we get the supply rate for the car. The final number amounts to how long the current inventory will last, in days, if no other cars are produced. While many factors can influence this final number, such as how fast cars fly off the lot, number of cars produced by the manufacturer, etc.; the results are that you’ll have a harder time getting these cars with the options and color you want, or finding them at all. In addition, you’ll be hard-pressed to negotiate...

Certain models of older cars and trucks are popular with thieves because of the value of their parts. Frequently, the parts can be stripped from a car at a chop shop and sold for at least twice as much as the value of the vehicle on the used car market. Newer models are also more difficult, but not impossible to steal thanks to anti-theft technology incorporated by the manufacturers. In addition, popular cars are often stolen more simply because their are more of them. See the list of top 10 stolen cars 2008: http://www.cardealerreviews.org/?p=117133

Ranking is based on the base model MSRP. You should be able to negotiate a lower price for the base model. Also, remember if you add additional features, you’ll could pay more. See list of cheapest trucks...

To my Conservative Friends: I almost never pay attention when my wife has on the Oscars, but as I tapped away on my keyboard Sunday night, I could not help myself look over at the TV and ask my wife, "How unwatchable is this show"??? So I decided to write about the things that I found most annoying about the Sham that is the Academy Awards. However, I am not going to go after the low-hanging fruit of the liberal monologues from the likes of Sean Penn (ugliest man alive) or Meryl Screech. That would be too easy.... I want...

(edit) The Highway Data Loss Institute of the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety has released its report on the most frequently stolen vehicles in the United States from the 2005-2007 model years, based on the number of claims per thousand vehicles insured.Unlike a list of the overall number of vehicles stolen, the HDLI tells you the odds that your car will be snatched based on how many others are on the road. It’s like a bad lottery. Car thieves must also steal their gasoline, because 9 of the top 10 vehicles are some of the largest cars and trucks on...

Obama’s(Hitler) List of Banned Media 1. The NY POST 2. WASHINGTON TIMES 3. DALLAS MORNING NEWS 4. WFTV Television 5. Fox News 6. New Yorker 7. CBS3 8. Others?

Fred -- Our team has built a tool called Neighbor to Neighbor that lets you tap into the power of this grassroots movement right from your home. You can reach out to potential supporters by knocking on doors or making phone calls at any time that's convenient for you. Take this election into your own hands right now by signing up and talking to voters in your battleground state about Barack and our campaign for change. Right now, this race is neck-and-neck. And it's all going to come down to what supporters like you do -- or don't do...

Do you remember your puppy days when you’d lay in a field, look at the sky and use your imagination on the puffs of clouds floating by? Yup, the good old days. These were the times long before you were asked to humiliate yourself by standing on your hind legs just to get a treat. Of course in my cloud observation days, I never really got much further than “Hey, that looks like a ball!” or “Hey, that looks like a chewy!” but no one ever accused me of being creative or bright. Our first entry is this Dachshund running...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - His mother suffered dark depressions and tried to dominate his life. His sister and daughter had severe mental problems, his father and wife died young and a beloved uncle committed suicide in his arms. So what did Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, do to handle all the pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, woe, bitterness, unhappiness and misery in a life that lasted over 90 years?He made lists.The 19th century British scientist made lists of words, creating synonyms for all occasions that ultimately helped make life easier for term paper writers, crossword puzzle lovers and...

The oldest trick in journalism is padding late December issues with plenty of "Best of the Year" lists. But which of these lists were the best this year? We present... THE BEST 'BEST OF 2007' LISTS OF 2007 LIST! 10. Yale Book of Quotations' Most Memorable Quotes of 2007. In first place is the crowd-disbursing, "Don't tase me, bro!" 9. Spike TV's Top 10 Best Trailers of 2007. Of course, 300 was included. 8. Wired magazine's Top 10 Startups Worth Watching in 2008. However, they seem to have left one out. 7. Metacritic's Most Critically-Acclaimed Albums of 2007. I only...

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World Ice cream is a frozen dessert made from dairy products, such as cream (or substituted ingredients), combined with flavorings and sweeteners, such as sugar. In the fifth century BC, ancient Greeks sold snow cones mixed with honey and fruit in the markets of Athens. Persians, having mastered the storage of ice, ate ice cream well into summer. Roman emperor Nero (37–68) had ice brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings. Today’s ice treats likely originated with these early ice delicacies. But at some point, the world of ice cream...

BreakPoint Commentaries Books Summer Treat By Chuck Colson 7/3/2007 BreakPoint Book Recommendations Here at BreakPoint, summer usually means one thing. No, I don’t mean it’s time to go to the beach. I mean it’s time for us to start talking about books for summer reading and sharing our recommendations. After all, what better companion could you have at the beach than a good book? Joking aside, we know that this is the time of year when kids, and we adults as well, often have a little extra free time and are in the market for something good to read. That’s...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee has been ranked by Forbes.com as "America's Drunkest City" on a list of 35 major metropolitan areas ranked for their drinking habits. Forbes said Tuesday it used numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to rank cities in five areas: state laws, number of drinkers, number of heavy drinkers, number of binge drinkers and alcoholism. Minneapolis-St. Paul was ranked second overall; followed by Columbus, Ohio; Boston; Austin, Texas; Chicago; Cleveland; Pittsburgh and then Philadelphia and Providence, R.I., in a tie for ninth.

What books have influenced your political, religious, or historical reasoning?

The Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1104035110442) in an update on the tsunami casualties today posted a link to a password-protected Thai government site listing all of the known names of the victims from Saturday’s tsunami, along with the password to access it. If you wish to locate the victims for a particular nationality, you can access them by following this link: (http://www.ems.narenthorn.thaigov.net/tsunami/login.php) and typing in “USER” for the username and “PASSWORD” for the password…without the quotation marks, of course. The site offers the option of listing the names by country of origin. This information should be of particular value to anyone with...

More 'Hit Lists' Found At Guilford County Schools 2 hours, 22 minutes ago Local - WXII ThePiedmontChannel.com School officials in Guilford County are investigating a series of "hit list" notes found in county schools Friday. One note, that threatened 12 students, was found at Northwest High School. It was left on a teacher's desk and was found after lunch. Two Jamestown Middle students were caught Friday in separate cases of writing threatening letters. Also, a similar note was found on a bathroom wall at Mendenhall Middle in Greensboro. The incidents occurred three days after a threatening note was found at...

END-OF-THE-YEAR LISTMANIA!  By Michelle Malkin   ·   December 01, 2004 04:47 PM Right Wing News delves into the fever swamps of the Democratic Underground and pulls out the 10 Worst Quotes from rabid libs.John Leo compiles the 2004 awards for over-the-top rhetoric.Quin Hilyer highlights the invaluable Media Research Center's top examples of media bias.And keying off the news that "blog" is the word of the year, here's my list of some of the most memorable phrases, neologisms, euphemisms, and soundbites of the year (feel free to send additions):Fake, but accurate MSM Global test Wardrobe malfunctionInstalanche/Drudgealanche (and not far behind...Wizbanging!)Digital Brown...

The ACLU has sued the Allegheny County Election Bureau, claiming that they had to pay $1,000 each for copies of voter registration rolls while the two major political parties got the same information free. The suit, filed yesterday by the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, says the county's policy violates open records laws and Constitutional rights. "Charging people different rates based on their party affiliations violates the most basic American value of treating all people the same, regardless of political beliefs," Vic Walczak, litigation director of the local ACLU, said yesterday. The county's Department of Elections also...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- President Bush, seeking to mobilize religious conservatives for his reelection campaign, has asked church-going volunteers to turn over church membership directories, campaign officials said on Thursday. In a move sharply criticized both by religious leaders and civil libertarians, the Bush-Cheney campaign has issued a guide listing about two-dozen "duties" and a series of deadlines for organizing support among conservative church congregations. A copy of the guide obtained by Reuters directs religious volunteers to send church directories to state campaign committees, identify new churches that can be organized by the Bush campaign and talk to clergy members about...

NEW YORK (AP) - A medical aid group said Friday that the American news media last year provided too little coverage of some world trouble spots, including the conflicts in Colombia, Chechnya and Congo. In its annual list of "underreported humanitarian stories," Medecins Sans Frontieres also cited a lack of media attention to the high death toll worldwide from malaria, the crises in North Korea and Somalia and the limited access of poor people to anti-AIDS medicines. "It's clearly a valid criticism when applied most broadly to the American media, but some of those conflicts such as the Congo and...