You can’t eat gold and you’ll need a gun to protect yourself from the violent masses during the coming depression. When the reality of the global economy hits America like feces hitting the fan the hordes will attack. Throughout the history of the United States guns have been apart of the fabric of our lives. With that in mind, Max Motors in western Missouri (max71.com) has orchestrated an outrageous campaign to promote sales and pimp themselves as modern day Thomas Paine-in-the-asses to the loony left. They are accomplishing this by giving away either a gas card or a free hand gun. Your choice? You heard that right! A free piece with purchase of an American made automobile.

Is Mark Muller, owner of Max motors, shamelessly trying to promote auto sales, or is he trying to make a political statement? The ATF wants him to stop. Liberal radio has crucified him verbally. Radio host Rush Limbaugh laughingly spent 45 minutes on the subject. Is he the devil, a modern day Huckster like P.T. Barnum, or a real American badass hero? Quite frankly you have to pick how you’d characterize him through your life filter. I know this man well, he is my older brother.

Mark called me in the middle of 2008 to ask me what I thought of his latest promotion. I begged him not to do it. He did it anyhow after he consulted with legal council and then told me to “grow a set.”

With that verbal slap he embarked on a marketing campaign that has created a firestorm around the globe. Sales are up over 400-percent, but at what cost? With threats against my brother Mark’s personal safety from peace protestors no less. “Peace pussies” as he calls’em! There have been picketers in front of his GM dealership screaming, shouting and threatening his life… real peaceful. I jealously called Mark, when I saw his promotion on all the networks, and I asked him if it was all worth it? Being a fellow media whore, I was dumbfounded at the coverage. He ripped into me with a tirade about “setting me straight” on The Constitution and The Bill of Rights. Unlike a shameless puffed up buffoon like Dennis Hof of the Moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada that has monthly scams, like $15 dollars off a prostitute if you flew American Airlines and had to pay more because of his gas prices, my brother is sincere.

“America is turning into a bunch of sheeple that are followers being brain-washed by big media.”

I did my research and it showed that when any major state in our Union has passes conceal and carry laws, violent crimes have been reduced considerably. Get that fact? More pistols = less crime. In Washington D.C., our nation’s capitol, you are not allowed to posses heat and it is one of the most violent cities in the free world.

“If you are a woman in New York you are a sitting duck waiting to be robbed or raped,” said political rabble rouser Anne Coulter on my radio show.

Angelina Jolie has visited many oppressed countries as ambassador for the morally bankrupt United Nations. She, has witnessed in over 20 visits to repressed lands how important guns are for the common Joe or Abdullah. She sounds like the late Charleston Heston nowadays. The father she won’t speak to (John Voight) is pro gun and she echoes Daddy. She and her husband, the dreamy Brad Pitt, are gun owners. “I bought original, real guns of the type we used in “Tomb Raider” for security. Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have one.” Jolie told the U.K. Daily Mail.

Guns good? Another example where this proves evident is in jolly ol’ England. Guns are completely illegal for the rotten toothed English yet since this law was passed violent crime has increased dramatically. Ayn Rand said “morality ends where a gun begins.”

A little gun history from her Soviet Union: in 1929 they established smoke wagon control. From 1929-1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. In 1917, 1.5 million Americans, unable to defend themselves were rounded up and exterminated. Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945; millions & millions of Jews (and others) who were unable to defend themselves were rounded up and executed. All the while Adolf Hitler spoke about how safe & modern they were. Huh? That’s just like politicians in Washington D.C. today!

Some rhetoric never changes. China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, twenty million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and sent to the after world. Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and stacked up after they were killed. Uganda mandated gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and brutally sent to be with Jesus.

Today xenophobic mass murder in South Africa has brutally forced thousands to flee. The victims are foreigners forbidden to fight back and forbotten from owning guns. This is not the after-apartheid love promised by Mandela. Foreigners are being raped, stabbed, beaten, burned, and buried alive. Gun owners of South Africa’s leader Thomas Estes believes The Firearms Control Act passed by South African’s parliament is totally to blame.

“The weak, the marginalized, the oppressed, and frail have a chance of survival only if they are armed.” Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. Defenseless people rounded up and planted in “The Killing Fields” for eternity. Modest estimates put the number of defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20^th century because of gun control: 56 million.

Big government despots hate guns because it means the people can fight back. One Chinese cab driver that had escaped told me that the Chinese government is afraid of the Americans because “you all got guns.” It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by their own government, a program costing Australian taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.

The first year results are now in: Australian-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent down under, assaults are up 8.6 percent, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not, so criminals still possess their upper hand! While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically up ward in the past 12 months, since criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.

There’s also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the now leather, skinned sitting duck elderly. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such a monumental effort and expenses were expended in successfully ridding the good people in the Australian society of their protection. The Australian experience and the other historical facts above prove it. You won’t see this data on the corporate controlled evening news, or hear politicians disseminating this information. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property. Gun-control laws punish only the law-abiding citizens. I have cross-checked this information only to learn there are few variations in the numbers. My liberal friend Calkins set out to prove me wrong just using the facts & just the facts. He lost. With guns, we are “citizens.” Without them, we are “subjects.”

Need more? Two illegal aliens, Ralph Resindez, 23, and Enrico Garza, 26, probably believed they would easily overpower home-alone 11 year old Patricia Harrington after her father had left their two-story home. It seems these tow boarder jumping buddies never learned two things: they were in Montana and baby Patricia had been a clay shooting champion since she was nine. Patricia was in her upstairs room when the two men broke through the front door of the house. She quickly ran to her father’s room and grabbed his 12 gauge polished Mossberg 500 shotgun. Resindez was the first to catch a near point blank blast of buckshot from his 11-year-old’s intended victim. He looked down at her wondering what has happened, he suffered fatal wounds to his abdomen and genitals. One creep dead one to go. When Garza ran to the foot of the stairs, he flabbergasted took a blast to the left shoulder and staggered out into the street where he bled to death before medical help could arrive. Aww, too bad.

On his corpse they found Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He was gutted and died from the stab wounds. Ever wonder why good stuff like a modern “Home Alone” where the scum gets sent to hell by a little girl never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news? Seems like some big news to me when an 11 year old girl, properly trained, defends her home, and herself….against two murderous, illegal immigrants….and she wins, she is still alive. Now that is GUN CONTROL!

A recent College shooting could have been stopped when the killer’s gun jammed. And at the N.I.U. massacre the killer paused to re-load. Had one of those college kids trapped in that cinder block death chamber been able to return fire a massacre could have been halted mid-murder. N.I.U.’s College campus is a “gun free zone.”

Apparently the murderer missed the memo. The average response time to 911 in my home city of Chicago is 15 minutes. You can do a whole lot of bad in 15 minutes. Look at your door and imagine how long 15 minutes would be after it’s kicked in. Surveillance video from our 911 call center rebroadcast on our news has shown the EOE hires jawing & endlessly yapping while the phones ring, ring, & ring. The argument for protecting the right to bear arms at all costs is legitimate and sacred and must be upheld for all citizens with minor reasonable restrictions.

Think I’m wrong? Prove it. You can’t! Skip your emotions wake up to reality and as my brother Mark says “grow a set.”

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There was no doubt when the concept was unveiled a little more than two years ago that Dodge was going to build it. And it has done yeoman’s work in keeping the shape of the street version true to the retro-inspired show car, although the proportions are slightly different to accommodate production needs. There are a few cues from the show car that are missing and a few new touches added. On balance, the production car is largely better for it.

Built on a shortened version of the LX platform that underpins the Dodge Charger, the Challenger has a 116.0-in. wheelbase and measures 197.7 in. overall. At 75.7 in. wide, it is some 4 in. narrower than the concept. And it’s a tall car, standing 57.0 in. high — we noticed in a parking lot that the roof of the Corvette parked alongside just barely cleared the top of the Challenger’s outside rearview mirrors.

Unlike the original Challenger, which had a shapely “fuselage” body that wrapped under at the rocker panels, the new car is slightly more slab-sided. But that’s a good thing because it makes this muscular car, with its 20-in. wheels and tires, look as if it is firmly planted to the tarmac.

The Challenger has a classic long-hood, short-rear-deck profile that remains compelling to this day. The grille opening is faithful to the original Challenger’s and provides welcome respite from the tyranny of the Dodge family’s cross-hair grille design inspired by the Ram truck. Anyone with just a passing familiarity with the division’s history will immediately recognize it as a Dodge. The only caveat is if someone catches a fleeting glimpse of the car’s C-pillar treatment. Although it clearly has lineage to the original, it also is remarkably similar to Chevy’s reincarnated pony car, so much so that a UPS driver, when he first spotted the car, stopped, jumped out of his truck at a stoplight and asked if I were driving the new Camaro.

Still, exterior designer Jeff Gale (son of former Chrysler design vice president Tom Gale) must be complimented on keeping exterior filigree to an absolute minimum. There is one Challenger badge in the front grille, two discrete SRT plates, the Dodge Ram’s head emblem on the top of the front fascia and Dodge lettering across the rear. That’s it.

In wind-tunnel testing, Dodge discovered that the large horizontal grille is actually a pocket that causes lift at triple-digit speeds. Gale’s solution was to look back at the Challenger Trans-Am car of the early 1970s and design jutting chin and rear decklid spoilers similar to those used on the racer. But other than these two devices, the car eschews clichéd wings, rocker extensions and other aerodynamic bits of flotsam and jetsam.

Other changes from the concept include making the hood scoops functional (they primarily vent the engine compartment rather than provide any ram air for the engine) and adding a chrome filler door marked FUEL in the original typeface from the 1970 model.

While the concept was a B-pillarless hardtop with retractable rear windows, in production, the Challenger needs that extra roof support. The pillar is hidden behind fixed rear quarter glass so that in profile, the car retains the hardtop look of the show car.

Perhaps the biggest disappointment is the interior. It is handsome and functional, but far too understated to match the Challenger’s personality. The comfortable and supportive leather bucket seats with contrasting stitching are similar to those used on the Charger SRT8. There’s a red stripe midway up the seatback, but that’s the only contrasting color in the cockpit. The rest is done up in charcoal gray and black with Alcantara door inserts and several aluminum/satin accents on the steering wheel, console and instrument bezels. The shifter and door pulls are covered with leather sporting a carbon-fiber weave pattern. The 4-spoke steering wheel, white-faced gauges, climate controls and audio system are straightforward in execution and come from the same SRT parts bin as the Charger.

The rear seat has positions for three people, but in practice, offers only a modicum of comfort for two with adequate leg and head room. There’s a nice fold-down center console, and the view forward is good thanks to the theater-style seating, but the large C-pillar makes riding in the back a cavelike experience.

The Challenger’s interior could be livelier like the concept’s, which had a 3-spoke steering wheel and an accordion-shaped cover over the steering column like the original car. On the 6400 2008 model Challengers, you can only get the 5-speed automatic with its conventional shift lever, while ‘09 models will have an optional 6-speed manual with a retro pistol-grip shifter. So, it’s a choice of exclusivity of the first models versus a more expressive interior with the manual. I’d choose the latter for reasons I’ll get to later.

As a result of the limited half-year production run, Dodge rightly chose to launch with its flagship first and fill out the rest of the line (including a 3.5-liter V-6 SE and 5.7-liter V-8 R/T) in the fall. So, all 2008 Challengers are powered by the 6.1-liter Hemi V-8, which produces 425 bhp at 6200 rpm and 420 lb.-ft. of torque at 4800 rpm. The Challenger has a great sound to it — a low rumble when cruising with a light foot that builds exponentially with engine rpm. Mash the throttle or kick down the transmission, and the Challenger emits a full-throated V-8 sound that some have likened to a P-51 doing a flyby.

Out on the open road, the Challenger is competent and comfortable. With its shortened wheelbase, freeway hop is always a concern, so the SRT engineers opted for a setup softer than the Charger’s. There will be those who want far more edge from a car like this, but for hard-core types, there’s always the Mopar catalog if they want more bar or stiffer springs. The car feels a bit lazy on turn-in with the suspension setup biased for a mild push; still, it’s a good compromise for a car that is suited to be a stylish daily driver. The Challenger can be pushed fairly hard on your favorite twisty bits without punishing you on rough roads. And while it just holds its own at the track or on mountain roads, the real virtue of this car remains the same as it was 38 years ago — and that is having the ability to do long, languid burnouts or getting you to 60 mph in 4.7 seconds while romping through the quarter mile in 13 flat. There’s plenty to be said for straight-line thrills.

A solid day of driving through the San Gabriel Mountains and at Willow Springs raceway, while revealing a few shortcomings, left me favorably impressed with the overall abilities of the Challenger. First off, it’s an easy car to drive. The seating position, outward views and controls are excellent for a car of this size and heft. Even though it tips the scales at 4145 lb., it never felt heavy, thanks to the abundance of power and ease of the steering action. The stability-control system is not intrusive and when traction control is deactivated, there is sufficient slip to get a bit of wheelspin and drift when pushing the car hard.

Braking is exceptional. The 4-piston fixed-caliper Brembos at all four corners hauled the car down from 60 mph in 121 ft. and from 80 mph in just 212 ft.

The downside is the 5-speed automatic. Although smooth in operation, the spacing between the gears, especially 2nd and 3rd, is problematical. Keeping the car in 2nd on fast sweepers runs the engine up close to the redline; pop it into 3rd and the bottom seems to fall out. Even if you keep it in gear, at redline the transmission automatically upshifts rather than holding the gear and bouncing off the rev limiter. This was particularly annoying to one of our drift-king staffers. Still, my fast way around Willow was to keep tapping the car down into 2nd and letting the rev limiter do the upshifting for me. The solution to this gap is to go with the 6-speed manual, which promises closer spacing plus the aforementioned pistol-grip shifter. An added bonus for waiting for the ‘09 model will be a standard limited-slip differential not offered on the first models.

Still, if you can get one of the original 6400 cars (which come in a choice of orange, silver or black with the carbon-fiber-pattern, matte-finish striping), you’ll find yourself behind the wheel of a fully equipped model for just over $40,000. Although Dodge touts a sticker of $37,320, the $2100 gas-guzzler tax helps push the car above $40,000. There are only three options: a $950 sunroof, an upgraded sound system with navigation for $890 and Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar performance tires (only $50) instead of all-season rubber. For all this, you get an American icon that is sure to turn heads. Sweet.

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