I'd just thought I would mention it. But I'

m telling you- one day America will build a motorcycle, and then watch out, world! Anyway, don't let me interrupt.

I prefer the four-wheeled kind myself, where acceleration is less the issue than durability -- I'm working on my second Accord, and couldn't be happier, although the present one is roughly the size of a Buick, and takes some getting used to. (I've taken to calling it my coupe de grace.)

get cut so much slack...

Somebody said:

"Stealth Goats

My apologies to any Iranian readers. I was not thinking about Iranians in my earlier post, knowing full well that Iran is nowhere near being a nomadic society. It's a shame that more Americans don't know diddly squat about the country their leadership wants to bomb back to the stoneage.

If more Americans would Google some visuals Iranian society, perhaps they would change their view toward what us a very advanced society."

I mean really.

Honda is okay in my book

The new CBR1000RR is amazing! IIRC a quarter in just over ten seconds! Stock.

Shooter, I sometimes believe that if you and your asshole buddies who worship at the altar of the MBA could turn a profit blowing horsecocks, that you would find a way to do it and then blame liberals for whatever diseases you gave the poor horses.

I hope you end your days here, living in a used refrigerator box, under a bridge on the New Jersey turnpike, downwind of a refinery.

-- Jebbie

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To quote Chris Tucker:

DAMN!!

Why don't you tell us how you really feel about Sh**ter, Jebbie ;-)

Jebbie, Shooter's gonna wind up where he winds up without us wishing him any harm. Compared to the harm he's wished upon himself already, how much more could we add anyway?

As for myself, liberal that I am, I've no objection to folks turning a profit, provided the rest of civilization's interests are served. Honda is okay in my book, but Enron, well...and don't get me started on Lockheed-Martin. A horse-blowing LLC might actually be an interesting addition to the sexual gratification industry, one which, properly developed, could provide some much-needed competition to the Congressional intern conglomerate. ;-)

An elderly friend lives next to a nice family, whose 23-year-old son just got back from his 3rd tour in Iraq. His mother is very upset: son sits in his room all day, won't do much of anything, just sits and stares. He told his mom that he refuses to scrape his friends' brains off the pavement ever again, and if he gets called back for a 4th tour, he'll kill himself rather than go.

That's what George Bush and his compliant Generals have done.

"Making money off such idiocy is a whole different matter."

Shooter, I sometimes believe that if you and your asshole buddies who worship at the altar of the MBA could turn a profit blowing horsecocks, that you would find a way to do it and then blame liberals for whatever diseases you gave the poor horses.

I hope you end your days here, living in a used refrigerator box, under a bridge on the New Jersey turnpike, downwind of a refinery.

My point is to show that, contrary to shooter 242's assertion, corn ethanol as an alternative energy source is hardly a project that's the ideological inspiration of "liberals."

Actually it is. Appropriately enough it was Al Gore that cast a tie-breaking vote in 1994, clearing approval of the mandatory use of ethanol. Making money off such idiocy is a whole different matter.
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In my home, we thought Aaron Brown was the best of a bad lot; and after he left, we stopped watching CNN.

I give you... Zirkle!

Conservative House Candidate In Indiana Defends Speaking To Nazi Group On Hitler’s Birthday

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/24/indiana-gop-nazi/

I'm a fan. This is better than parody. And an Annapolis graduate, too. Scary.

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I think his wife left him for a "marital aid".

He calls them "divorce aids".

My apologies to any Iranian readers. I was not thinking about Iranians in my earlier post, knowing full well that Iran is nowhere near being a nomadic society. It's a shame that more Americans don't know diddly squat about the country their leadership wants to bomb back to the stoneage.

If more Americans would Google some visuals Iranian society, perhaps they would change their view toward what us a very advanced society.

Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign

Sitting there by the left turn line

Flag on the wheelchair flapping in the breeze

One leg missing, both hands free

No one's paying much mind to him

The V.A. budget's stretched so thin

And there's more comin' home from the Mideast war

We can't make it here anymore

.

That big ol' building was the textile mill

It fed our kids and it paid our bills

But they turned us out and they closed the doors

We can't make it here anymore

.

See all those pallets piled up on the loading dock

They're just gonna set there till they rot

'Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing to pack

Just busted concrete and rusted tracks

Empty storefronts around the square

There's a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere

You don't come down here 'less you're looking to score

We can't make it here anymore

.

The bar's still open but man it's slow

The tip jar's light and the register's low

The bartender don't have much to say

The regular crowd gets thinner each day

.

Some have maxed out all their credit cards

Some are working two jobs and living in cars

Minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for a drink

If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. CEO

See how far 5.15 an hour will go

Take a part time job at one of your stores

Bet you can't make it here anymore

.

High school girl with a bourgeois dream

Just like the pictures in the magazine

She found on the floor of the laundromat

A woman with kids can forget all that

If she comes up pregnant what'll she do

Forget the career, forget about school

Can she live on faith? live on hope?

High on Jesus or hooked on dope

When it's way too late to just say no

You can't make it here anymore

.

Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store

Just like the ones we made before

'Cept this one came from Singapore

I guess we can't make it here anymore

.

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin

Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in

Should I hate 'em for having our jobs today

No I hate the men sent the jobs away

I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams

All lily white and squeaky clean

They've never known want, they'll never know need

Their sh@# don't stink and their kids won't bleed

Their kids won't bleed in the da$% little war

And we can't make it here anymore

.

Will work for food

Will die for oil

Will kill for power and to us the spoils

The billionaires get to pay less tax

The working poor get to fall through the cracks

Let 'em eat jellybeans let 'em eat cake

Let 'em eat sh$%, whatever it takes

They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps

If they can't make it here anymore

.

And that's how it is

That's what we got

If the president wants to admit it or not

You can read it in the paper

Read it on the wall

Hear it on the wind

If you're listening at all

Get out of that limo

Look us in the eye

Call us on the cell phone

Tell us all why

.

In Dayton, Ohio

Or Portland, Maine

Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains

That's done closed down along with the school

And the hospital and the swimming pool

Dust devils dance in the noonday heat

There's rats in the alley

And trash in the street

Gang graffiti on a boxcar door

We can't make it here anymore

.

Music and lyrics © 2004 by James McMurtry

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