ToKeN wrote:Jrecee wrote:lost_within wrote:........I saw the rear end of a fairly lady Z....you guys may have huge issues just like anywhere else in the world...but I swear when I look at your cars, it makes all the pain and suffering go away.
Doesn't looking at american cars make you forget all of our country's problems?


... Im just thinking about how badly Chrystler went under. Thanks for bringing up that up, i really feel better now <sarcasm>.
Just kidding. I do like the new Challengers, theres just something about them that makes me wanna spend that much on a machine like that. Im not much of a Mustang fan (i live in the south, so the Mustang to me is more of a "redneck class" vehicle). Im more of a GM/Chevy man myself. My dream car is the Corvette Stingray or a Shelby (or AC) Cobra 427, shoot both accually:
Ack wrote:
Actually, after the collapse of the Soviet Union organized crime happened to be the best equipped to handle the transition because they already had their own networks. In effect, they'd been capitalist all along, and so most of the Russian business empires that popped up immediately after USSR's collapse were mafioso going legit because they could. And after the Russians felt burned over American(read: Clinton) treatment as a "junior partner" during Yeltsin's presidency, the government has gone back to many of their Soviet policies and run out a good deal of these businessmen, specifically the ones felt to pose a threat to government. But then again, what did you expect when the president immediately following Yeltsin happened to be former KGB?
You really cant blame them, there a communist federation.
Russia has had interesting goverment rule, before it was the hiarchey with Czars, then to Marxism/communism in the past 150 years. They pretty much hated the Czar rule and went to communism, then after a while they got tired of how that was run and wanted something else, which today, is a atmosphere of communism. Change definetly takes time. But by wiping out the russian mob, you wipe out a good part of their structure.
Most of ours were in place to fight against the Soviets. In the last twenty years, we've pulled back most of our WMDs from their vantage points in the world, and we've been considering the disposal of our nuclear weapons. But in violation of international agreements(supported not just by us but by that ever increasingly useless organization the UN), several nations have developed their own or are developing their own, so I oppose our elimination of our own stockpiles and encourage the development of new means of missile defense. After the long and bloody history of our "relations" with North Korea, I'd say we need it.
All it really takes is one. The last time Nuclear weapons were used on another country in war was Japan, and that took 2, 1 more than needed (it really should havent been done, but at that time, it was America's "double ace in the hole") The war needed to end, and some times the best of choices are the hardest to choose. I dont blame the US wanting not to fight on japanese soil other than Okinawa depending on how the japanese fought as well.
I like this thread, it has 2 things I like/know, cars and history...