nklr - article about an mc ride and election

[Fred Hink]

What part of "THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING" did you not understand? You have all earned Moderated status. Take your personal problems off this list. If you want to bad mouth me because of your actions, then don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Fred List Admin.

[klr6501995]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Dyer" wrote:

>> > Just because it's legal to fart in an elevator doesn't mean you

should. If

>> > Steve Dyer > Norman, OK >

All the political discussion and bellyaching associated with it that has flowed for the last several days was worth the laughing I got from the above statement. My belly hurt from the just the mental images that I got from the above. The cats now think I'm nuts...Or was it the pigs. Nope, cats. I do find it interesting reading many of the NKLR posts and have been involved with them in the past. Very interesting to see the diversity of the mind of the klr rider... One thing has always struck me about political talk, It has always seemed to me the open minded, diversified, compasionate, anti-hate speech, peace loving, mother earth lovers, tolerant ones resort to name calling first. Just my observation.

[Jud Jones]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Powers" wrote:

> > How will this election end? To find out, take a rideJoe Soucheray > > TwinCities.com-Pioneer PressArticle Last Updated:10/21/2008 11:58:43 PM CDT > > On a motorcycle ride Sunday afternoon, I pushed deep into Washington County, > where I have developed several wonderful itineraries, to take in barns and > wooded hills and secret little lakes. Farther, I reminded myself it's a > short season and each ride could be the final one of the year. > > Farther. > > I got so far into Washington County that I started seeing McCain-Palin > signs. At say, 25 or 30 miles out of town, McCain-Palin signs are not only > plentiful, they aren't even vandalized, while meanwhile, back near the > tallest buildings, the signs are infrequently displayed and often defaced by > spray paint. > > Farther. Just a bit more. I got far enough that I saw a lone Palin sign > without McCain's name. Now that's rural, insofar as Gov. Sarah Palin has > been characterized by hunting, fishing, snowmachining and zipping around in > her floatplane. > > I turned back at the Palin sign. Maybe going farther would have been like > traveling back in time, to Reagan signs and Nixon signs and Eisenhower > signs. > > That's how I will think of it on future rides I got all the way out to > Palin. Michele Bachmann and Norm Coleman were a given. But I got all the way > out to Palin. > > As a socially responsible rider, I never rattle the pipes in town. When you > do, particularly on a parkway or a leafy avenue, you only disturb the > sensibilities of people who sit in the window with a quill pen ready to > demand ordinances and restrictions and limitations, because they have every > right in the world not to have their peace disturbed. I don't give them any > ammunition and even understand their point. > > But out in Washington County, I could let the throttle loose and listen to > the trusty friend snarl and bark. Easily do I agree to the mythology of the > motorcycle as horse, the rider as cowboy. It's all a game, but a > head-clearing one and the simplest explanation we have for election-result > maps. > > John McCain and Palin will undoubtedly win rural America. Barack Obama and > Joe Biden will overwhelmingly win urban America. Not only the yard signs > tell us this, but the famous election maps of the last few go-rounds that > showed George W. winning virtually all of America's real estate while Al > Gore and John Kerry won virtually all of America's cities. > > We are not a terribly difficult people to figure out. With a little space, a > little elbow room and the occasional need to make noise with a chain saw or > tow a horse trailer to the Fairgrounds with a big SUV, you probably lean > toward the candidate you most think will leave you alone. > > Closer to the tall buildings, closer to density, you tend to lean toward the > candidate you think will make your neighbor leave you alone. I suppose > collectivism has its appeal when you have to shut your windows to the > neighbor's backyard fire pit or plug your ears to the neighbor's leaf > blower. > > There are other reasons, of course, why cities lean left and countryside > leans right, chief among them the essentially unexamined notion of peer > pressure. The Obama signs outnumber McCain 50 to 1 in the city. I haven't > counted, but the evidence is there for the observer. For pete's sake, how do > you go to the block party next summer if you had the only McCain sign on the > street? > > In two weeks, most of the signs will be gone. But in about a year, it starts > all over again, for among our significant cultural declines, presidential > politics are too much with us, for too long. It isn't healthy. Long rides > are antidotes. >

You notice that Soucheray waits until he gets out in my neighborhood before he raps the pipes on his unmuffled Harley. Thats just one of the many reasons he's a no-class jerk. The destruction of the TCNOC's First Thursday is just one more. But contact me off-list if you really want to find out what a low-life he is.