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On the Ridge

Mrs JAC stylin'.

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What?!

You don't take a netbook on motorcycle trips?

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Gotta love cracker barrel!

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Happy Girls!

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Road treasure

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Unstoppable

And, no, it's not mine.

And now for something completely different

Draw Your Own Conclusions

One of these guys wonders publicly why frigid
older women are attracted to the other guy. See, he's intrigued because the other fella appears obviously gay.......

See me gettin'

The "Look"™ from ridin' buddy.

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The Rude Song

This, though hilarious, may just qualify for the rudest song in quite some time.

Parental Alert!

The Lonely Island: J I M P

It's the facial expressions.

From Thimscool

Who is on the ball with a cool link:


Raffaele De Rosa's Amazing Knee-Riding Save - Watch more Funny Videos

Obviously Untrue

Barack Obama :"However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence," he said.

Fact 1.) Tiller was killing babies at a record pace.

Fact 2.) Somebody shot his ass.

Conclusion: Issue resolved.

Anybody heard anything outa

Bill?

The Next GS?

From Machineart Designs:

Happines is...

A full freezer!

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Cool bug alertj

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It's a moth, but it's coloration and pattern are like snake skin.

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Dead Yankee Day

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Bridal Veil Falls

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Hwy 28, South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina

God made this road for me.

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Bail!

Alright,
I know BMW riders are suppposed to be weather warriors and I don't want to burst anyone's bubble on that since Nathan and I have both ridden entire days in a downpour, but there was a storm ahead and there's just too damned many people living in Georgia to make it any fun to ride there outside of Blood Mountain and Jocassee Lake Rd (Like rollercoasters, man!) so we bailed and hauled ass back to the mountains after pondering at length and smoking on the matter at a mexican restaurant Athens. We have found ourselves in Clemson South Carolina with bellies full of Prime Rib and Corona. The taste of fine cigars and bourbon lingers on our lips as we emphatically apply our heads to the pillows at lights out. Pity us.

We only rode about 800 miles today, but we did get a late start this morning and traffic was ridiculous even on the rural two lanes we prefer to barnstorm. Folks are getting a real early start on this damned yankee holiday and I have had to refrain from shooting folks for pokin' along in the left lane.

Note: For future reference "Scenic Drives" are just that: "drives". Not "rides". A scenic drive can be as boring as driving the bypass of any given town, meaning there are likely no switchbacks, the curves are all minivan safe, and chicken houses extended into the horizon. Honeysuckle in bloom and chicken shit by the ton make for a rare olfactory blend. Trust me.

Mountains, Motorcycles, Wild Turkey, and Smoke.

Destination: Savannah

Gravitic Pull:

Accommodations: We might end up anywhere.

One Man Has a Clue

Bear and Bull debate on CNBC:

The EuroPacific guy has if figured and explains his position with facts - the others spout platitudes. Take particular note of the CNBC fella getting angry about John Browne's characterization of the government's unemployment rate reporting as unrealistic and "post Clinton" and giving a real rate of 15.2%. I guess CNBC has caught a bit of the MSNBC Obama cheerleader bug. Such an intense emotional reaction to a cool reporting of facts and a logical interpretation of them is an indicator of the denial that comes from panic. The sky is falling and folks without umbrellas are trying to yell it back up.

Also of note is the chorus of chuckles and derision by the other three panelists upon taking note of Browne's "Dow at 1000" prediction. You can see the anchor taking solice in the agreement of the others. They are trying to feel right by acclaimation.

I don't watch a lot of news and zero financial "news" for obvious reasons, but things are worse in this field than I could have imagined and folks paying any mind to the drivel escaping from such programming need to be fitted for a drooling bib.

Craigslist Targeted

I new a democrat would go after Craiglist sooner or later. Craigslist is simply to free to be allowed to stand as it exists and has gained way to much exposure. No politician can become aware of such a thing without having an urge to screw it up. This is just the first step. They are looking for a way to gain power and influence over it and, by the nature of a politican having power and influence over something, to destroy it.

The prostitution angle is a red herring. Nobody cares about prostitution.

It will be interesting to see what deal the devil will offer.

Together at last

Close to being back on..er off the road.

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Rockstar

Ann Coulter : You just knew there was a Southern Connection

Thanks to the doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering and mother's fighting Kentucky spirit, we got to see that face much longer than anyone ever expected.

Tale of the Dragon

When not working, one should be playing. Hard.

Hey nate!

See what I gotta ride with while you're playin' good hubby.

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Foothills parkway

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Doing what they do best

Bullshittin'.

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Sorry assed buncha loafers.

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Hmmmmmm

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At the crossroads of time.

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Heading to the dragon

Gas-n-go

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Roci Reports....

Just got back from gun show in Northern VA.

Primers were rumored to be sold out yesterday, but there were still a few cases to be had at $70 per thou. WLR. I found some at a back table for only $55, but I think I got the last of it. There wasn't much 9mm to be seen anywhere except high priced designer loads. the $10 a box stuff I got last month is now $25.

Bass Pro is out of most common bullet types and cartridges.

Soft points are plentiful but don't work well in my autoloader.

The major ammo guys came in with pallets of russian and various surplus types and were sold out by noon today. The CNN guy was happily filming right wing whackoes carting out cases of the stuff (7.62x 39 and 5.56 mostly).
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BTW,
The ammo guy I talked to said he cannot account for the shortages. his deliveries from suppliers are all on time and in greater quantities than last year. He blames women. He says he often sees a wife come up to her husband, (who knows he is looking at overpriced goods and wants to make do with what he has), and tell him, "get more".

I can state that my own wife has told me this even though she has no idea how much I already have. They may know something we don't.
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********!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F L A S H !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!********** !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gun Store Rumor Alert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question: Where has all the ammunition gone?

Short Answer: Federal Government action has curtailed production of ammunition and components.

Proper Reaction: Oh shit.


A recent tour of area gunstores yielded this disturbing information:

1) Winchester ammunition factory recently purchased some new machinery to service government contracts and was told to idle all other lines while servicing the federal contracts or a way would be found to shut them down completely. This was brought to light during a recent tour given to industry journalists to show off the new machinery.

2) CCI, the largest manufacturer of "primers" and a major ammunition supplier, has been shut down by OHSA . That would qualify as "a way would be found" given they were issued an instruction similar to Winchester. Folks who felt secure in their ammunition component supply and their ability to meet their own needs by constructing their own cartridges are scrambling to find primers. Primers would be the most difficult (nigh impossible) individual component of a cartridge to fabricate on one's own.

3) Police departments began purchasing AR-15's and even some M-16 heavily over the last year and failed to anticipate the large quantity of ammunition required per officer to get them qualified and keep them qualified. I have one confirmed instance of a department contracting with an individual reloader to supply ammunition for that purpose and are getting so desperate as to consider contracting him for duty ammunition.

4) Walmart, which is a huge seller of ammunition if not the largest, has issued a policy prohibiting their stores from selling ammunition and will be pulling ammunition off the shelves in June.

To paraphrase the above items; They're not making it, you can't make it, and what there is will be prioritized to law enforcement.

None of this is confirmed except the desperation of police departments and the scarcity of components. I do not belive the uptick in ammunition sales is anywhere near large enough to result in the scarcity we are experiencing, nor is military procurement at a level to cause it especially given the time frame manufacturers have had to increase production rates and capacity.



That's what I got for now and that's quite disturbing. I suspect there is more and even worse to be discovered.

Drive-by Gold

From Samuel!






Celebrity Jay Leno gives a walk around tour of many interesting features of one of his Brough Superior SS100's along with an overview of it's history, design concepts, and manufacture. The video end with a narrated ride along with Jay and some interesting tidbits about the unique riders controls.

It has been said that "riding a motorcycle well at speed requires similar concentration to piloting a fighter plane", the Brough Superior SS100 merits the addendum "and has damned near as many controls".

Chicks with Toys

What will they think of next?!

Deutsch-Engineering Uber Alles or Like You Need Another Reason to Buy a BMW GS

A storm front swept through the Bluegrass this afternoon just as many another has done already this spring setting off weather alerts for Tornado Watches and heavy rain. Given the recent tragedy in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and the prolific tornado generation in the region I pulled up the Wunderground.com radar to see what was what. Nothing new, nothing out of the ordinary. Spring in the Bluegrass.

The sky slowly darkened to the west and I checked the barn doors, mower cover, and the bike cover on the GS which I keep on my porch since the parlor coffee table was not able to support its weight, but that's another story and better left untold lest MrsJAC should nose around the blog. I will say though she is still mighty pissed at our chocolate lab "Pudge" - sorry old girl, but you didn't expect me to take the rap did you!? Anyway, one more radar check, all looked good, the Tornado Watch alert popped off with it's ubiquitous warning as if it were just another disclaimer mandated by government lawyers, and I sat down to eat; secure in the knowledge we would not need to cower in the basement this evening.

As the squall line approached, the wind picked up rather more suddenly than is typical. I was not concerned as this old house has borne 110 MPH winds with nary a shudder or groan. And then I heard a "thump".....

MrsJAC witnessed this heinous act of nature and said my GS was lifted and thrown off the porch. I ran into the storm to assess the damage, not really wanting to know. I determined there was minimal, if any, damage and none to vital mechanical systems or control mechanisms. That left the fuel tank. The Fuel Tank. I shudder to consciously consider the cost of a new BMW Pacific Blue/White Special Edition GS fuel tank. Even now as I type I am suppressing the memory.

Here is what I found:
My beautiful Bike inverted and hanging onto the porch by the right side cylinder head and foot peg, the fuel tank pressed against the planking.

I had back surgery a couple weeks ago (I found a practitioner that does the slickest procedure on a herniated disk with zero recovery time that I will blog on in the near future) and am still restricted to lifting over 20lbs for another 12 days so, having lost me mind, MrsJAC had to stop me from lifting the GS back onto the porch. This wasn't all that easy a thing for her to do and I had occasion to note my girls have become quite skillful at turning their father's black rages (which, I think you will agree, a situation like this surely merits) toward things more constructive than cutting the porch up with a chainsaw to lower the GS down gently. I did manage, however, to "remove" one porch post.....

When a clearer head prevailed I went to Jamie's (my car fixin', horseshoein', barn door building compadre') to get the engine hoist to commence righting the bike to begin assessing the damage and the hit my wallet was going to take to put it back right, for it was going to be put right.

Upon returning home, Jamie had the same idea I did, which was to just pick it up and shove it back onto the porch. I discouraged him, "Dude, it's heavier than it looks. You should see what it did to the coffee table!" So, Jamie called his brother and after Brent made properly sympathetic noises the two of them graciously man handled my GS back onto the porch and back upright. I put the kickstand down and we started assessing damage.



Damage Revealed: ZERO!

German Engineering Uber Alles, by gawd. Thank God. And thanks fellas, y'all are badass.

Been Giving the Harley Fags a Rest Lately, So.....

A young woman goes to her doctor's office, afraid of the
strange development on the inside of her thighs . . .

a green spot on the inside of each.

"They won't wash off, they won't scrape off
and they seem to be getting worse."

The doctor assures her he'll get to the bottom of the
problem, and tells her not to worry until the tests come back.

A few days later, the woman's phone rings. Much to her
relief, it's the doctor.

She immediately begs to know what's causing the spots.

The doctor says, "You're perfectly healthy - - there's no problem. But I'm wondering, is your boyfriend a Harley guy?"

The woman stammers, "Why, yes, but how did you
know?"

"Tell him his earrings aren't real gold."

Shower Phone

Might come in handy...

Shower Phone

Somalia Solution

Nuke and Pave:

The house in the center is the one the long suffering parents of the Brothers C vacated only two years ago. Looks like it got the garage. Not an act of God, that. Only the devil would take out the mancave and leave the frilly parts intact.



Good video coverage of the tornado hit here under "Raw Video".

How far we have come...

From this:







To this

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Only 53% Believe Capitalism is Better than Socialism

An statistic oft repeated by the obese in the motorcycle community is, "90% of people want a Harley" - with the correct response being, "90% of people don't know shit about motorcycles."

Applying the same thinking to the capitalism survey results reveals that the only useful information it transmits is which marketing effort is the most pervasive. Further reading of the survey reveals a breakdown into age demographics with the under 30 mushbrain the most susceptable to commie propaganda. Surprise!

The under thirty crowd isn't long off the teet and generally hasn't found it's feet or a direction in this world just yet. Being that they are tottering economically it is only reasonable that they are frantically searching for another boob to latch onto. Granted, the appendage the government has flopped out has a mainline tap into the zombie-fluid vat but the kiddies are lookin' for anything they think will stabilize their situation.


The MSM has glossed over most of the evils of socialism that are readily apparent in those few countries where it is practiced as closely as possible to it's original intent. Things like food shortages/rationing, heating fuel cutoffs, hospitals becoming short rest-stops on the way to the crematorium, mass imprisonment of dissenters all interfere with the image of a Star Trek existance the proponents of government control of everything wish to convey.


The demographic I would like to see, but none of us will be treated to, is the racial data. Wonder how that breaks down? We should probably skip the "College Educated" sub-category for the under thirties, too.

EP's new, new blog.

Sorry, EP. I had ya' up, but somehow I put you on DJ's link. I'll fix it.

Hippy Alert and Barack "Barry" Hussien's Ball Licking Diplomacy

you mean 8.8 years, JAC ! And I personally don't understand how we can justifiably argue that other countries shouldn't have nukes when we have them.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 04.07.09 - 11:59 pm |

First off; ya' can't even manage a login? Haloscan will take any old BS. Pick a handle. Get help from a child if you must.

Second; International relations has as much to do with "justifiably argue"-ing as logic has to do with interacting with bureaucrats. This is what we call "pie in the sky" hippy bullshit because it is divorced from reality in that it occupies a universe of "ought to's" and "should be's". As in; they will get rid of theirs if we get rid of ours because that's the way the world "ought to" be rather than the reality of "them" trying to decide whether to bomb us into oblivian today or tomorrow as soon as we are stupid enough to render ourselves defenseless against folk who get up in the morning pondering what they can do to take them one step closer to ruling the world. I know, they "shouldn't be" that way, and that fixes it doesn't it? All better now.

In actuality, the above illustration is over simplified in that it only gives one of many possible uses potential and proven adversaries would apply to an arms imbalance in their favor. As we are currently a nation of appeasers, what benefit would a credible megaton threat present to an aggressive power? Hitler didn't have a nuke and got a lot from Chamberlain by just rattling a sword and intimidating the proto-hippy candyass. Had he zapped Paris before talking to Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister would have ceded Scotland, Ireland, and all the British holdings in Africa all while licking Hitler's balls.

Being that Barry Hussien has already been touring the world licking balls (figuratively, of course, though that bow looked very forward...) I think it is safe to draw a parallel.

Presidential Job Requirement:The Ability to Talk Out of One's Own Ass

Barry Hussien Obama said something really stupid yesterday about a world without nuclear weapons, so....

The loonies in North Korea launched an ICBM last night which prompted barry hussien to get up the next day and reassert his call for a world without nuclear weapons just to make sure we all know he said it on purpose. He goes on, further, to say the U.S. has a :

“moral responsibility ” to lead the way, as the only nation ever to use them.

Now, I ask you, is that some "visualize world peace"-head-in-the-sand-hippy-bullshit, or what?!

That's better than the clinton's planting flowers on decommissioned missle silos!

The next 3.8 yrs is gonna be really entertaining.

The Provocation....

A skittish motorcycle with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed, untiring smoothness.

T. E. Lawrence The Road






This is from a man who, in 1935, rode his SS100 Brough Superior into a tree at over 100 MPH.



The SS100 is a fascinating bike and was scary fast for it's time.