LIBERALS ATTACK !!
LIBERALS ATTACK... THEY'LL KILL YOUR PETS! ACK! ACK!
CALL ME SNAKE
ESCAPE TO NOWHERE... SNAKE!
Sunday, August 31, 2014
VACATION IS OVER AND I'M BACK!
THE RENTAL... DODGE CHALLENGER! GOOD CAR FOR A VACATION, BUT; NO LEG ROOM FOR BACKSEATERS, POOR FRONT END HANDLING. ALL THE HOMELESS PEOPLE LIKED IT AS THEY WERE ALWAYS WAVING!
I ALWAYS VISIT SHASTA DAM, FED BY THE SACRAMENTO, McCLOUD AND PIT RIVERS. THEY FEED SHASTA LAKE WITH MOUNT SHASTA IN THE BACKGROUND.
A COUPLE PANORAMAS OF SHASTA DAM. LOW WATERLINE DUE TO THE ONGOING DROUGHT, I HAVE SEEN IT LOWER.
THE TOWER, WHICH IS USUALLY SUBMERGED. IT WAS USED TO CABLE CEMENT BUCKETS OVER THE DAM SITE WHEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION. THEY CUT IN DOWN RATHER THAN REMOVE IT. THERE IS ALSO A MINING TOWN LEFT ON THE LAKE BOTTOM.
THE CENTIMUDI BOAT RAMP... ONE HELL OF A WALK TO THE BATHROOMS!
Monday, August 18, 2014
IT'S VACATION TIME? IS IT GONNA HAPPEN? YES, BUT FIRST...
ME? DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICTS I MISSED THE INDY MOTO GP AND THE INDY MILE. MOTO GP HAS SUCKED THIS YEAR IN MY OPINION, SO NO LOSS THERE. THE INDY MILE, LIKE LAST YEAR, RAN WITH THE STATE FAIR. THE TRAFFIC AND PEOPLE REALLY MADE IT SUCK. I DON'T THINK I MISSED MUCH THERE ALSO.
SO, WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING? TOO MUCH WORK AND I HAVE BEEN SUPERVISING THE WEEKEND SHIFT. NOT SURE WHO WAS REALLY IN CHARGE AND TOO TIRED TO RECOGNIZE A MONDAY FROM A BOX OF RABID RACOONS!
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SELL THE HARLEY NIGHT TRAIN FOR A WHILE, NO TAKERS THERE. BOB'S BMW ADVERTISED BUYING YOUR BIKE, SO I TOOK A CHANCE.
THE SHORT STORY: THEY TOOK THE H-D, LOST MY ASS FOR THE TRUE VALUE, PAID OFF THE MIGHTY BMW K1300S, AND PICKED-UP THE NEW AND AWESOME R1200GS... AT A VERY UN-NERVING PRICE TAG. FUCK ME!
DEAD SERIOUS BROKE AND HEADING TO CALIFORNIA THIS WEEK FOR MY NEPHEW'S WEDDING.
MY GOOD NEIGHBOR DON WAS WAITING AT THE END OF THE DRIVEWAY TO SEE THE HARLEY OFF.
ONE MORE EAR THUMPING BLAST FOR THE NEIGHBORS AND DOWN THE ROAD I GO!
AT THE END OF A FINANCIAL DAY OF STRIFE AND A "WHO GIVES A FUCK ATTITUDE", I AM READY TO RIDE HOME... IN THE RAIN!
TOO TIRED AND TOO BUSY THESE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS TO CARE AND NOW A SHORT WEEK WITH AN AIRPLANE RIDE TO CALIFORNIA. I HAVE NOT TOLD MANY PEOPLE I AM COMING. I NEED A PLANNING SECRETARY TO SET-UP SHORT APPOINTMENTS WITH WHOEVER I CAN VISIT. A SURE RECIPE FOR FRIENDS TO HATE ME, BUT THE DAILY COST HAS TO BE CONTAINED. PLEASE DON'T ASK WHY I BOUGHT A NEW MOTORCYCLE LAST WEEK.
ROBIN WILLIAMS... MOTORMOUTH EXTRAODINAIRE
ALL THE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT HIS DEATH ARE A PSYCHOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE.
I WANT TO SAY... I NEVER LIKED HIS COMEDIC ACT. HE SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE A TRAIN RACING TO A WRECK!
BUT, HIS DRAMATIC ACTING WAS TOPS. HE HAD AN ABILITY TO BE ORDINARY IN HIS ROLES, ALWAYS HIDING A DARK SIDE. CONTINUING AS A COMEDIAN HE CAME TO THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF AND JUMPED.
I DON'T THINK HE REALIZED WHAT HIS TRUE CALLING AS AN ACTOR WAS. HE WAS SCARED HE WOULD NOT COME BACK, HE WAS AFRAID OF A NEW PATH.
JUST SAYIN'.
HONDA CB750 AND MOTORCYCLES WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME!
I WAS MAYBE 16 OR 17 YEARS OLD WHEN THIS MACHINE CAME TO JOHNNIE ROSS MOTORCYCLES. BREATHTAKING WITH AWESOME SOUND, STYLE AND SPEED. THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST FOUR HANDMADE PROTOTYPES.
IT IS STILL A BEAUTY!
Thursday, August 7, 2014
POWER TO THE OLD FARTS@!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys.
For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are impatient and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for awhile.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10am. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical son-of-a-bitch. If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys.. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however... I've been in combat and never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training. Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too... I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those dirty rotten coward terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with attitudes and automatic weapons, who know that their best years are already behind them.
HEY!! How about recruiting Women over 50...in menopause!!! You think MEN have attitudes??
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on border patrol. They'll have it secured the first night!
Send this to all of your senior friends... it's in big type so they can read it.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
IT TAKES A TERRORIST IN A FRIENDLY UNIFORM TO DO THIS...
A two-star general was shot dead in Afghanistan on Tuesday and 15 other soldiers wounded when a man dressed in an Afghan Army uniform opened fire on Tuesday at a military academy.
A German brigadier general was among the wounded and this is the first time since the Vietnam conflict that a two-star American general has been killed in combat.
It is understood a number of Britons were wounded in the attack but their injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.
Details about the attack at Camp Qargha, a base west of the capital, Kabul, weren't immediately clear, but American generals usually have a security detail.
General Mohammmad Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, said a 'terrorist in an army uniform' opened fire on both local and international troops.
Azimi said the shooter had been killed and that three Afghan army officers were wounded.
A US official said one American soldier was killed and "about a dozen" of the wounded were Americans, but declined to comment further.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss details of the attack by name on the record.
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Smoke: The military academy base after an Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO troops inside the premises, on the outskirts of Kabul, August 5, 2014
Move! A NATO soldier opens fire in an apparent warning shot in the vicinity of journalists near the main gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014
Attack: An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier gestures at a car at the gate of a British-run military training academy Camp Qargha, in Kabul August 5, 2014
Germany's military said 15 NATO soldiers were wounded in an assault launched 'probably by internal attackers.'
The wounded included a German brigadier general, who the German military said was receiving medical treatment and was 'not in a life-threatening condition.'
NATO said it was investigating the attack, which Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned as 'cowardly.'
It is 'an act by the enemies who don't want to see Afghanistan have strong institutions,' Karzai said in a statement.
Qargha is known as 'Sandhurst in the sand'— referring to the famed British military academy — as British forces oversaw building the officer school and its training program.
In a statement, the British Defense Ministry said it was investigating the incident and that "it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time."
After the shooting, a soldier in a NATO convoy leaving Camp Qargha fired his pistol in an apparent warning shot in the vicinity of Associated Press journalists and pedestrians nearby. No one was wounded.
The Qargha shooting comes as so-called 'insider attacks' — incidents in which Afghan security turn on their NATO partners — largely dropped last year. In 2013, there were 16 deaths in 10 separate attacks. In 2012, such attacks killed 53 coalition troops in 38 separate attacks.
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Patrol: Afghanistan National Army soldiers stand guard at a gate of Camp Qargha, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014
Such 'insider attacks' are sometimes claimed by the Taliban insurgency as proof of their infiltration. Others are attributed to personal disputes or resentment by Afghans who have soured on the continued international presence in their country more than a dozen years after the fall of the Taliban's ultra-conservative Islamic regime.
Foreign aid workers, contractors and other civilians in Afghanistan are increasingly becoming targets of violence as the U.S.-led military coalition continues a withdrawal to be complete by the end of the year.
In eastern Paktia province, an Afghan police guard also exchanged fire Tuesday with NATO troops near the governor's office, provincial police chief Gen. Zelmia Oryakhail said. The guard was killed in the gunfight, he said. It wasn't clear if the two incidents were linked and police said they were investigating the incident.
Meanwhile Tuesday, a NATO helicopter strike targeting missile-launching Taliban militants killed four civilians in western Afghanistan, an Afghan official said Tuesday. NATO said they were investigating the attack.
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