Can't Kill 'em All? Bullshit !

I was listening to Shawn Hannity today (spare me the "He's a hack!" comments) and he had Ann Coulter and some blackmuslim militant on. They were both gettin' whipped by the girl, but that's beside the point. The BM lunatic made the statement that if we left muslims alone they would leave us alone (BS) and besides there are 2 billion of 'em and we couldn't kill 'em all and even if we could they ain't afraid of dyin'.

How's he figure that? We can kill 'em all quite easily and with amazing rapidity. I think we have demonstrated that. The two shortest wars ever were against "fearless" and fearsome muslims. They are definitely and demonstrably afraid to die. Their fear of death/injury (AKA cowardice) is their defining characteristic.

Equus Pallidus Steps In It

Not to be pickin' on ya' EP, but looks like these fellas sprung an ambush from where I'm sittin'.

FT

What makes me mad is people who drive on roads everyday don't mind taxes going for matenance of said roads. Yet they don't see agriculture as part of our infrastructure, it is just crazy.
equus pallidus | Email | Homepage | 02.07.06 - 7:40 pm | #

What makes me mad is people who drive on roads everyday don't mind taxes going for matenance of said roads. Yet they don't see agriculture as part of our infrastructure, it is just crazy.

What?! Are you nuts? Are you advocating publicly owned farms?

First off, regarding roads, almost everyone uses them and nobody wants toll booths, so we pay taxes - there's near universal agreement about this (outside the fever swamps of VoxVolk). Not so with farm products. There's absolutely zero problem getting people to wait in line and pay for beef and bread as they want them, there's a very nice system for doing this that has been in place for years, maybe even decades.
Bill | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 8:34 am | #

No Bill

I am talking about any kind of farm subside and people cry murder.
equus pallidus Edit comment Delete comment | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 3:54 pm | #

ep, sorry as a farmer I disagree with you. I believe that those subsides hae been the cause of the continued disappearence of the family farm. The government subsides mass production, the enemy of hard work and time value that the family farmer has to offer. I can beat the big operations hands down on low cost of production because I have time and labor to put into the mix. Mass production is more expense and requires a government handout to keep them going.
farmer Tom | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 7:35 pm | #

FT

They took away the dairy subsidies and almost all the small dairy's went out of business.

They took away the peanut subside and My brother is about the only one left in the county that did not go out of business.

Then they heep more and more regulation on them, unpaid mandates, that put many out of buisness.

The subside's are what keep the small farmer in business. I have worked in agriculture professionally for 20 years. I have been to hundres of farms and I have seen what this has done.
equus pallidus | Email | Homepage | 02.08.06 - 8:14 pm | #

JACmail!

FarmerTom sends the loot!




The 830 was completely restored professionally. This is the last of the big two cylinders, big as two coffee cans.


The 650 was also professionally restored, it starts on gas then switches over to diesel after it is running.


The 620 was purchsed new, is in a shop being restored.
The 2510 is very low serial number, extremely rare. Very few built. It is now in storage. A show tractor.







Some of you remember my brother-in-laws passing away, the sale is coming up in a couple of weeks.

Here's a link to the sale bill thought some of you would be interested in seeing it.

http://www.clarkauctions.com/

What Dual Sport It Comes Down To

Ladies, feel free to pick the pretty one. Men, personal experience, rumors, baseless advice appreciated. Here they are in order of contention:
XR650R - Must be made street legal, has power out the ass, is light for its size, off road genius, Baja 1000 champ every year. Cheap. It's a bit tall.

XR650L - Street legal, good to go w/o modification (other than seat height), will carry two up without protest, good torgue but slow on the tarmac, very off road capable, cheap, heavy and tall.


KTM - street legal, good power, great offroad though heavy, buzzy at speed, high maintenance, pricey, looks very cool.


Honda Africa Twin - Never seen one of these have you?! We can't et 'em in the US/Canada. 600cc V-twin, great road manners, heavy, low power for the weight, have traveled the world.