Yearly Archives: 2018

Admiring Higher Level Motorcycle Skill

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Many of my loyal readers know that I am friends with motorcycle cops who work in the area where I live. I have known one of them since we went to high school together (JB), and through him, have met, trained with, and ridden motorcycles together (a little) over decades.

One would expect motorcycle cops to have exceptional riding skills, because they ride and practice almost daily.

However, there are a few motorcycle riders who aren’t bike cops, but whose skill impresses the heck out of me. They have…
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Personal Contributions (How I Resist)

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Warning… rare political rant…

A banner unfurled by Greenpeace demonstrators that reads “Resist” is seen near the White House in Washington, DC, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The mantra of the political left in the USA for the past 18 months has been “r-e-s-i-s-t”, meaning

a resistance movement is simply that; it seeks to resist (change) the policies of a government or occupying power. This may be accomplished through violent or non-violent means.

Now, before you go casting me as a “snowflake” or a pejorative label, “liberal,” consider that I am a firm believer in the founding father’s fundamental principles of what the USA is all about: a representative democracy. I am a patriot. But being so does not mean that…
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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Some of us of a certain generation may remember a children’s magazine in a doctor’s office that showed a photo and asked, “what’s wrong with this picture?”

Actually, the picture itself is fine. What they are asking is, “what in this photo is wrong?” For example, I posted before about the rider in the image to the right who I saw riding on I-5 in Seattle a couple years ago. A real contender for the Darwin Award.

Being a safety-minded rider who believes in ATGATT, I present to you a new marketing photo…
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Returning

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Greeting, loyal blog readers,

I appreciate your patience while I had to take a break during one of the most intense periods of needing to attend to my Spouse’s health issues. He still remains quite ill, and we can’t find what’s wrong, despite his been seen and having tests done by four more specialists during the blog break.

But at least now he is…
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