Last Call

As the world charges head first into economic chaos arising from the insane "woke" movement, we witness yet another foolhardy sacrifice made upon the altar of global climate change.  I refer here to the announcement by Dodge this week that they will no longer build American iconic muscle cars. That's right. The uber-sporty muscle car models Challenger and Charger are to be eliminated so Dodge can rebrand them as electric vehicles. 

Even Ford, who has debuted the electric Mustang, didn't completely eliminate the model.  But Dodge is owned by Stellantis N.V., which is a multinational automotive manufacturing corporation formed in 2021 on the basis of a 50-50 cross-border merger between the Italian-American conglomerate Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the French PSA Group.  So that explains that.  The French and Italians, despite having some serious performance automobiles themselves - think Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, Alfa Romero, and to some extent even Peugeot - just don't understand American fascination with a 400 cubic inch engine turning out 400 horsepower.  As the Beach Boys once noted in their song Little Deuce Coup, it's hard to steer when I'm getting rubber in all four gears.

Ironically this overture to go woke and push useless electric vehicles on a public who has adamantly stated that they don't want them, is suicide.  Chrysler Corporation has been bought and sold more times than a Vegas hooker.  What do they think will happen now?  

An interesting point about the gasoline engine that as been ignored by one and all in the media is the vast amount of efficient energy it produces.  At the extreme top end of the gas engine's power scale, consider the fuel dragster.  These are lightweight, high output engines, usually built on a V8 426ci hemi - designed by Chrysler, by the way - and can produce 8,000 horsepower, turn 9,500 RPM, and achieve a top speed of about 330 MPH.  The dragster accelerates to over 4G to enable it to exceed 300 mph in four seconds; and for it to attain 200 MPH before half-track, the launch acceleration gets to 8Gs. That's faster than an F/A-18 being launched from an aircraft carrier.  A dragster, of course, only runs its engine for about 10 seconds, but this exemplifies the huge power available in a gas engine. In  more practical use, that gas engine in virtually any modern automobile will provide a 200,000 miles-plus service life.

So given this readily available automotive power, why the push for EVs?  There are many reasons, and all of them invalid.  They're ecologically sound?  Hardly.  Lithium ion batteries are deadly, and pose a huge disposal problem.  Further, when they get hot, they ignite.  Do you want to sit atop 2,000 pounds of inflammable toxic batteries?  Me either.

How about resources?  Lithium is not particularly rare, but is found in only a few countries.  Currently, most of it comes from China.  The problem is in mining and extraction, as Lithium - a soft metal - has a high reactivity, so it's typically only found in compounds, or mixtures with other chemical elements.  You gotta separate 'em, as the Offspring have noted.

What about disposal?  End-of-life gas engines are simply melted down, and recycled into other practical uses.  Unlike alkaline batteries, lithium batteries are reactive and contain hazardous materials like cobalt.  So how do we  dispose of  Li batteries on a large scale?  Drop them off at the recycle collection center at Home Depot?  Nope, it's worse.  Globally, fewer than a dozen facilities recycle EV batteries today, with a combined annual material processing capacity of less than 100,000 metric tons. Yet real disposal is an unaddressed problem, and certainly not good news for the environment.

How about utility?  EVs fail every time.  A study was done recently wherein an EV Ford  F-150 pulled a common camper type trailer.  Even when fully charged, the EV failed dismally to reach even the advertised rage of 230 miles before needing to be recharged. Running lights, wipers, AC, and sound system reduces available range in an EV.   And charging may take up to 12 hours.  Contrast that with a gas powered F-150, towing the same camper, running lights, windshield wipers, phone chargers, and sound systems, and even with an highway average of 18 MPG,  still provides a range twice that of the EV. 

So what really is the game plan here?  Well, it may be that personal mobility is under attack.  The powers-that-be don't want you to have or enjoy the personal freedom of mobility - they need you confined in a small, yet definable circle.  You know, so they can keep an eye on you.  More tyranny, less freedom.

So it seems Dodge's name badge for the 2023 Challenger and Charger is prophetic:  Last Call.

The Whippin' Post

We've been put down
We've been lied to
I don't know why,
We let ol' Brandon make us the fool

He killed our great economy
Imported criminals from afar
Now Hunter and his ChiCom buddies
They're drinkin' in some fancy DC bar

Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Like I've been tied
To the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Good Lord I feel like I'm dyin'!

The media they all tell us
That we've acted the fool
And we gotta stand down and take it,
And obey their Deep State rules

So we drown ourselves in sorrow
As they try to take our guns
Nothin' seems to change
Voter fraud stays the same
But good guys still want to run 

Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Like I've been tied
To the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Tied to the whipping post
Good Lord I feel like I'm dyin'!

With sincere and heartfelt apologies to Duane, Gregg, Dickey and the rest of the Allman Brothers Band.

Bye, Bye, America

Things are different today. It's the end of the innocent America.  We now live in Democrat occupied America. The unprecedented FBI raid on President Donald Trump's private residence Monday, and the unlawful seizure of Republican Pennsylvania Senator Scott Perry's cell phone by FBI agents Tuesday, the very next day, and the all the other myriad instances of FBI retaliation against Republicans everywhere was the metaphorical cannonade against Fort Sumter over a century ago. The first shots have been fired, and as of Monday, August 8, 2022, the American citizen now is at war with the corrupt, illegal federal government.

For years now the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been obviously corrupt to the core, as it arbitrarily decides which crimes it wishes to investigate, and which suspects it decides to pursue.  Remember back in 2014, the House Select Committee on Benghazi asked the State Department for Hillary Clinton’s emails. They had to ask for them, because instead of only using the State Department email system, our gal Hil used a personal, non-government email address.  And that was housed on private servers located in the basement of her home in upstate New York.  But no raid on her private residence occurred.  In fact, then FBI director James Comey went on national television to assure us that, well, Hil really didn't mean to do anything illegal, she just didn't know any better.  Oh, and she's a democrat.  So she's free to go.

When it was disclosed that our alleged president's own son, Hunter Biden, was involved in some serious shady dealings, not only with selling influence to the the oligarchs in China, but with drug dealers and prostitutes here stateside, and all of this was clearly found on his abandoned laptop computer, the FBI couldn't be bothered to even pretend to open an investigation of ongoing government corruption at the highest levels.

But yet they raid Trump's home ostensibly to retrieve alleged classified documents, a year and a half after his presidential term ended.  Why the rush?  Well, there's a midterm election coming up, you see, and well, we need something - anything - to help us from being voted out of power.  And we're not entirely sure the vote fraud thing we've been pulling off for the last decade will work this time.  So. . . 

First off, a president is the only one who can categorize documents as being either "classified" or "de-classified".  The documents he had were of the latter.  So it is clear to the entire world that this "raid" was political theater designed to influence an upcoming election.  That failed, as we will soon see.  By the way, there's 33,000,000 - yes, 33 million - documents from the Kenyan's Reign of Terror 2008-2016 that have never been released to the National Archives.  I can't remember if Obama's several private residences were FBI raided to recover same, but maybe you can.  Oh, and records from Joe Biden's decades-long Senate career are still not archived. 

But the other, more sinister part of this operation is the government's blatant nullification of protected rights guaranteed under the US Constitution. Not just of Trump's rights, but the rights of all of us.  If they can raid a billionaire like Trump at his home, they can sure as hell raid you at yours for little or no reason as well.  

This week, the American Stasi was born, was armed, and was put into operational service of the Deep State.  Not only in the FBI, but in other agencies as  well.   A job requirement of employment for the new 87,000 to-be-hired IRS agents for example, is the willingness to carry a firearm and use deadly force. I wonder against whom that deadly force will be used.  Now we know why that agency has been stockpiling huge amounts of ammo recently.

What the petty children running this administration have unleashed upon this nation this week is historic.  They have opened - no, make that smashed - Pandora's Box irretrievably.  The Kenyan, that hyper-polished Marxist community organizer; Joe Biden, the thoroughly corrupt pretender in chief; Christopher Wray, the arrogant fascist ideologue running the FBI; Merrick Garland, the despicable communist the head of the Department of Justice and many others, have no place in a democratic republic, and as such should be removed from office, and held accountable to the American people for their crimes.  Publicly hanged by the neck until dead works for me.

It's going to get interesting in next few weeks and months.  Can we overcome this coup, and reacquire our national identity of a nation of laws, not of men?  Can we wage war at the ballot box, rather than by gunfire in the streets?  Can We The People prevail against a tyrannical government forcing upon us an ideology that has always failed?  I don't know either.  But one thing is certain:

Bye, bye America.