Hot Dang! Out on your Africa Twin. Four bike flips ago I bought a long parked TransAlp, brought it back to life, and flipped it. Hondas are awesome. Would love to have that fore and aft V-twin. But parts are mostly made of unobtanium. For example: I had to replace the piston in the front jug, because the previous owner turned the long parked engine over without first spritzing some WD40 in the plug holes, so seized rings busted the piston. I would have machined both heads, since I was already overhauling the one, but I could only score the one last head gasket in the world. These crippling difficulties do not afflict beemers. Plus, getting your hands in where you can wrench at things is a nightmare. So I flipped it and bought a KLR. Low quality piece of crap, but common as house flies, so plenty of parts and farkles available. A gas to ride. In fact, I will probably be up in your neck of the woods on that KLR in the next few weeks.
Yes. The political sitch is sad. Racketeers run one party and retards lead the other.
If you divided the 14 million unemployed into the trillion and a half stimulus you could pay each and every 14 million unemployed fifteen bucks an hour from the first bailout until now. Now the racketeers want to blow through another 450. Where does all that money go?
Here in Northern Dull-Aware there was a Saturn factory. One of the conditions of the GM bailout was that GM had to close Saturn. Thousands out of work here. So the stimulus gave half a billion to a Finnish auto start-up owned by an investment group from Qatar (because Allah knows Qatar needs the money) to buy our Saturn plant to build one model battery powered luxo car with a 40 mile radius costing 88 grand a pop (cause God knows there's a big market for 88 grand 40 mile luxo rides). Claimed they had thus created 5,000 jobs. Set up a rostrum and gave a nice speech. Here three years later, the start-up has run through a billion, is seeking more funding, has decided they have to make a hybrid instead of battery car (cause Toyota knows no one else is already losing ten grand a unit selling those those), has arranged to buy their engines from BMW (cause Keynes knows we don't need the jobs making engines here), has raised the price of their one car to 98k, promises they will finally pump out their first car by 2014, and there are about six employee rides in their parking lot, none of which is a hybrid, cause the only employees are seven buck an hour security guards driving the last few clunkers which somehow escaped cash for clunkers. Every time I go by, I think of those clown cars in the circus --- and imagine a thousand employees coming out of each of those vehicles. That's what we got for our money here. I am sure others know similar tales from their necks of the woods. Evaporating bucks.
Racketeers and retards are robbing our grandchildren. And we haven't a clue how to stop them.
Maybe we ought to just rob social security (cause grandma knows that's not broke enough). Yeah. That ought to do it. I feel better already.
The man in charge speaks to the right corner of the room, then he speaks to the left corner of the room, then the right, then the left, because his coach told him that makes him look inclusive. Then he lifts his chin and lets us look up his nose, because his coach told him that makes him look regal. His delusional fans applaud and say what a wunnerful speech. But what did he say? Doesn't matter because that's not what he is gonna do.
Had an earthquake the other day. Didn't know we had a fault line out here; but we found out we did. It was Bush's fault.
Chains you can believe in.