but I’m stumped. If they’re in business, their demonized and called greedy capitalists. If they’re in sports, they’re brought before Congress and grilled. If they’re in Hollywood, they’re blacklisted if they happen to have conservative views.

Will the real men please stand up? No, Chuckie Schummer, I wasn’t talking to you. Have a seat.

My father’s day gift from my two girls. I’m about 3 chapters in – it’s mostly reprints of his articles on driving & cars. P.J. grew up in Ohio where his g-father was a self-made Buick dealer; father, uncles & cousins all worked there.

P.J. laments how the “Fun-Suckers”, not the Germans or Japanese or the unions, are the ones that killed the American car.

Sorry to use a cheesy 80s lyric, but I can tell you what happened to us.
We have been DOMESTICATED.
We have been told to get in touch with our “Feminine Side”
I’m not trying to sound preachy, but pick up “Wild At Heart” by John Eldrige, its really informative, and gives us the steps on how to become real men again.
Hope I didn’t offend anyone.

Bill

Just put ‘sausage creature’ into Google and you can read the tale yourself. Some choice quotes:

Cafe Racing is mainly a matter of taste. It is an atavistic mentality, a peculiar mix of low style, high speed, pure dumbness, and overweening commitment to the Cafe Life and all its dangerous pleasures… I am a Cafe Racer myself, on some days – and it is one of my finest addictions.

I have been a connoisseur of fast motorcycles all my life. I bought a brand-new 650 BSA Lightning when it was billed as “the fastest motorcycle ever tested by Hot Rod magazine.” I have ridden a 500-pound Vincent through traffic on the Ventura Freeway with burning oil on my legs and run the Kawa 750 Triple through Beverly Hills at night with a head full of acid… I have ridden with Sonny Barger and smoked weed in biker bars with Jack Nicholson, Grace Slick, Ron Zigler and my infamous old friend, Ken Kesey, a legendary Cafe Racer.

Some people will tell you that slow is good – and it may be, on some days – but I am here to tell you that fast is better. I’ve always believed this, in spite of the trouble it’s caused me. Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba….

must be related, both trying to expand governent power and create laws and limit corporate profit in the name of safety. We don’t need these people telling us what to drive, how fast to drive, what kind of seatbelt to wear when we drive and now threatening us with arrest if we don’t secure our children to their standards,
Now we have Obama telling us we can’t smoke (after he smoked for 30 years and is probably still sneaking a few in late nights at the White House). If it was up to these guys we will have generations to come of non smokers with an incredibly low rate of traffic fatalities and cancer. Don’t these liberals realize the rights we are giving up
in pursuit of these so called social advantages.

There are times where I’m almost certain you are channeling my father.

Well done!

Here is a passage from Liberal Fascism that describes how successful businessmen like Gates and Walton were forced to do something that is contrary to individual innovation and risk taking.

Most successful businessmen would prefer not to bother with politics. For years both Wal-Mart and Microsoft boasted that they had no interest in Washington. Microsoft’s chief, Bill Gates, bragged that he was “from the other Washington,” and he basically had one lonely lobbyist hanging around the nation’s capital. Gates changed his mind When the government nearly destroyed his company. The Senate Judiciary Committee invited him to Washington, D.C., to atone for this success, and the senators, in the words of the New York Times, took a kind of giddy delight in making the wealthiest man in America squirm in his seat. In response, Gates hired an army of consultants, lobbyists, and lawyers to fight off the government. In the 2000 presidential election, Wal-Mart ranked 771st in direct contributions to federal politicians. In the intervening years, unions and regulators began to drool over the enormous target the mega-retailer had become. In 2004 Wal-Mart ranked as the single largest corporate political action committee. In 2006 it launched an unprecedented “voter education” drive. (Pg.303)

It’s also worth noting that both Wal-Mart and Microsoft found it necessary to protect themselves from Washington, not merely because government couldn’t resist meddling, but because their competitors couldn’t resist lobbying government to meddle. This is one of the underappreciated consequences of the explosion in the size of government. So long as some firms are willing to prostitute themselves to Uncle Sam, every business feels the pressure to be a whore. (Pg.304)

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Ferrari Killer.

My pops runs a finance firm, and one of the tenants of his building has a GT40 with the Gulf paint job. What dreams are made of, eh?