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I write this with my tongue only half-way in my cheek.
I have been away and off-line for a bit, seeing stuff in the world beyond where the blue I can see from my window ends and visiting some good friends that I would never have had the chance to know before the cyber revolution. A combination of conversation with people who live in a far off land and isolation from the American "free" press has given me an opportunity to think of things not normally within my knuckle dragging sphere, and to consider some issues upon which my cloistered existence as a citizen of the USA has limited my viewpoint.
Firstly, I am surprised at the lack of comment about the tumble into the mud that Elliot Spitzer has been treated to. He has been such a thorn in the side of so many powerful people and organizations for so long that it is a wonder that there is even a body to find. The very first report I heard was tempered with the comment that john information in situations like his was never used. Huh.
When Ms Clinton first mentioned the vast right wing conspiracy I will confess, I thought she was having a really bad experience with some really good drugs. I reconsider.
Skull and Bones.
Now to the great conspiracy. This group has long bemoaned the lack of reasonable rear drive cars. Guess what? Detroit and the oil companies did it to us. Sit down and listen, please.
When I was a young lad, eveyone had rear drive cars. Most everyone had a trailer to haul big stuff to the dump, carry the things that a family needed to take on vacations and haul around refrigerators and pianos and stuff. Tradesmen sometimes had trucks. Farmers sometimes had trucks. Trucks did not go to the grocery store or the office. Detroit got the idea that if they started building complicated front wheel drive cars it would increase profits, and that if they stopped building sensible, simple rear wheel drive cars people would have to buy front wheel drives. Front wheel drives will not haul horses, boats and travel trailers, so people who wanted to move really heavy stuff would have to buy trucks. You can not stuff a front wheel drive with enough stuff to make a reasonable dump run, so people would have to buy trucks. Trucks were too plain to match the comfort of a car, so they were decked out with carpet, fabric seats and power windows. No more cheap, practical work trucks. Oh well, the price of a carpentry job or a new chimney just went up. Trucks get lousy fuel economy. Oh well, the demand for motor fuel just went up, price followed.
Who is the culprit? We are. The People followed the market trend; very few bucked it by refusing to conform, although Chrysler very nearly succumbed in the early 80s. Bailed out by who? The US government. Hmmm.
Who makes out like the bandits they are? Oil companies.
Time to put my tin foil hat back on and try to find some roadkill for the evening meal.
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01 V70 2.4 M5 and a Mini
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I thought he was talking about the Traction Avant (NMI)