(photo: Michael Conroy/A.P. caption: Darryl Herbertz, of Moorseville, Ind., displays his tattoo with the text of the Second Amendment, along with other images of protest during a tea party rally outside the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Thursday, April 15, 2010.)

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So it looks like it’s Citroën day here at Stinque.  Another confession: if I moved to Yurp and had a lot of money, I’d get a used C6.  Same sort of self-leveling suspension as the DS – not only can you drive it with a flat, you can drive it if a wheel falls off:

Posted the Fifth Gear test because, quite frankly, Jeremy Clarkson’s test wasn’t as informative. Big surprise.

If I lived in Europe, I’d have an early-70s DS as a daily driver:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8Q0g15NY8

No conventional jack – the hydraulic suspension lets you lift one tire at a time if you have a flat.  It was the first car designed so the engine slid under the frame (instead of into your lap) in a collision. It was the first mass production car with power front disc brakes. An amazing achievement – and front-drive, naturellement. It was so radical that they sold 12,000 the day it was introduced, in 1955.

Title: “2010: Take Back America: A Battle Plan”

Authors: Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Rank: 40

Blurb: “We stand at the crossroads of ideals and policies: freedom versus socialism; sovereignty versus international subservience; economic liberty versus debt slavery; quality medical care versus government-sponsored euthanasia; and private property versus confiscatory taxation.”

Review: “My husband and I have worked very hard for the past 40 years. We have been good stewards of our money. Please tell me why we should be taxed at the highest rate in order to support those unwilling to work or those who entered this country illeagly?”

Customers Also Bought: “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists,” by Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott

Footnote: You broke it, we bought it.

Take Back America [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon kickback link]

For 30 years I’ve been cooking chili recipe after chili recipe to find the best one. In all that time, I’ve never found one that turns out as good as Wick Fowler’s chili kit.  So a couple weeks ago I gave up, ordered a case, and now there’s 4 pounds of chili on the stove.  Gonna eat some, freeze some, and take some down to my doorman. Dinner will be a chili mac. More after the jump.

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Given the millions spent developing these cars, you’d think they’d be able to get the wheels to stay on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t94NJXCL2SI

While warming up yesterday for the Chinese Grand Prix, a massive suspension failure sent both front wheels of Sebastien Buemi’s F1 car rocketing off in opposite directions, leaving Buemi to stare at a wall he now can’t avoid.

Front Wheels Simultaneously Explode Off F1 Car [Jalopnik]

Quick! Somebody sacrifice a virgin! If the radar photo above is any indication, Europeans have clearly pissed off Mother Earth with their excesses. After the jump, heartbreaking stories of “tragedy” from some of the world’s most privileged people.
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