One More Middle Aged Guy

I May See a Trend ...........

2012-02-11T10:16:00.001-06:00

It's been done before .... an outdoors enthusiast faced with impending decrepitude decides to go out doing the thing they love most to do.

I am reminded of the true story where a well heeled professional ... diagnosed with a terminal health problem ... spent a sizeable chunk of his estate and the last of his vitality on a non-stop helli-skiing vacation in the BC Rockies. Over the years, there have been cases of sky divers taking a last big jump .... surfers swimming out to sea or just giving it all up to a Hawaiian North Shore wave. A paraglider or pilot who flies off into the wild blue yonder... or a mountaineer hanging it all out on an impossible rock or ice wall. Sailors ... on a last single handed and one way trip to the end of the earth. A big game hunter facing down a charge ... but not taking the shot. A warrior's last stand ... a blaze of glory .....

Well ... there might be a certain elegance and esthetic symetry to going out with a bang ...

Skier Dies at Solitude

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:23 AM PST

Solitude, UT - A 74-year-old Rhode Island man died in a skiing accident on Jan. 31 at Solitude Mountain Resort in Utah, First Tracks!! Online has learned. A spokesman with the Unified Police of Greater Salt Lake indicates that David R. Reid, of Bradford, R.I., had left friends to ski Solitude's double-black terrain in the area of Milk Run, an area with gated access that drops from the top of the resort's Powderhorn II lift toward the loading terminal of the Summit Chair. Reports indicate...

Another Skier Dies at Keystone

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:01 AM PST

Keystone, CO - Keystone Resort in Colorado recorded its third death in as many weeks on Tuesday. William Emberton, 72, of Stonington, Conn., was found face down in the snow alongside Keystone's expert Geronimo run on Tuesday afternoon. Emberton died of traumatic brain injury and a broken neck, according to the Summit County Coroner's Office. He was wearing a helmet. Emberton's death was the third at Keystone and the 11th in Colorado thus far this ski season. Just this past Sunday, a...

... but in these times one might also consider the terms of a financial package that may include a double or tripple pay out for accidental death ....

OMMAG

What Problem?

2012-02-09T22:13:00.001-06:00

While US politicians bend their ever flexible spines in whatever direction it seems the wind may be blowing .... on the matter of immigration threats and border control there seems to be precious little concern ... or even understanding of the nature or scope of threats posed by the lawless nation of Mexico.

Most liberal media seem to think that only issue with the southern US border is the victimhood of migrant labourers ... that and the unfathomable need to ignore the fact that broken laws are actually crimes.

What these members of the Lame Ass Media never bother to get their heads around are things like ... This ... Fifteen TONS of pure methamphetamine ! 30,000 pounds .... 480,000 ounces ......13,607,771.1 grams ... who knows how much in dollars .... who knows how much in loss of life and destruction of families and futures?

In relation to Canadian crime stats ... about 1/10 th of the illicit drugs in circulation are ever accounted for. Judging by the state of affairs in Mexico could we expect even that great a result?

Being generous ... extremely generous ... that would mean a conservative estimate of the outstanding meth supply originating in Mexico at any given time would be 150 Tons!

Meanwhile back in Washington ..... "What problem?"

Hat tips to Borderlandbeat dot com

OMMAG

Union Label

2012-02-05T10:37:00.000-06:00

Thanks to "The People's Cube"

Communist Party of the USA ...

2012-02-04T16:06:00.001-06:00

Did you know that they coordinated the intrusion of churches by leftists with the intent of expanding socialist influence?

Well they did ... and presumably still do. Although it is one of those things that smacks of hairbrained conspiracy theorist in tinfoil shrouded head gear. As with many of the things proposed or attempted by commie groups ... no matter how far fetched ... it seems they are always willing to try.

Why? You might ask .... why ... but the answer is simply ...because they can. But why would they want to? Because communism/socialism/ or whatever you chose to label the movement is all about the destruction of our society.

This BTW is exactly WHY it is important to understand that this is part of Barack and Michelle Obama and twenty years in the pews of one America's most virulent Communist Preachers.

Just as Scott Douglas is a tool for the commies to use in support of unrestricted immigration ( a disrupting influence in society ) ... so is the message that has been hammered home by ... Jeremiah Wright and others like him... for decades.

You think that the Obamas are OK?

Think again........... these people live for sole purpose of fucking up the world so they can get away with imposing their own will. They will do anything to achieve that goal and they will never stop trying.

OMMAG

Taxpayer Sponsored Porn?

2012-02-03T19:00:00.002-06:00

What's new?

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been sneaking little Can-con pornographies into the movies in the off hours for decades.

Made in Canada crap ... paid for by Taxpayers through the Canadian Film Board and other avenues of public subsidy... lovely little vignets about perversion... drugs and degeneracy ... mostly made by Quebec based film makers and usually located in Montreal ... Toronto or Vancouver .... (making the fictions virtual documentaries!) .... and of course ... besides the actual porn there has always been the Porn for Leftists as seen in many of the documentaries and much of the regular news reportage ... coupled with Porn for Separatistes .... do we really need any crap at all that glorifies Quebec separatistes and their inspirational demagogs? How about Porn for Liberals? .... basically the entire body of work at CBC news. Porn for Commies? .... oh yeah ... all those anti-American and anti-christian ... anti-capitalist ... anti-tradition and anti-Canadian .... tirades and slanders!
Porn for Feminists? ... the annual commemoration of the McGill shootings.... the never ending blather about politically correct solution to problems that only exist in the swamp fever imaginations of moonbat progressives and such!

I guess though that if they go to Fwance to buy a TV series in the same veign it makes all the difference in the world?

Well .... no .... it is actually just more of the same .... without bothering to use the Canadian Content excuse.

The fact is that the CBC has been a laughingstock to any serious minded and clear thinking individuals for the last 30 years. The outlook of the management and the employees and the outlook of their supporters is so far from what is actually Canadian that it beggars belief. Coupled with the constant assertions by the CBC itself that IT and IT alone defends and represents what is Canadian .... the beclowning of the public broadcaster has been well accomplished well before someone discovered that they were buying Fwench TV porn shows.

$1.4 billion in taxpayer funding for this.

OMMAG

I'm a Rodent .... Not a @##!!++$$ Meteorologist..............

2012-02-02T17:27:00.000-06:00

What the heck do you want from me?

Greece ... Just Another Poster Babe for the Success of Socialism

2012-01-30T21:11:00.000-06:00

Much ado in the media about the financial fiasco of the EU ... those of the same ilk that brought socialism to Europe in the past century ... those moral and intellectual superiors who schemed and enveigled their way into yet another great plan to impose a bureaucratic regime to govern the peasants of Europe.
And of course the inevitable result ... failure and discontent. Because ... all of Europe ... all of it... is about failure ... failure is the zeitgeist that drives the European soul. Fear, loathing and avarice and the inescapable fact that Europe is failing. Europe has been failing since the 19th century ... the 20th century was all about the failure of Europe and the 21st is now about the final spasms of cultural death.
The inevitable result for a society that has abandoned the concept of responsibility for the security blanket of cradle to grave state management.

Which brings us to the topic of Greece. Without having embraced the totalitarian sort of state that those great 20th century successes were able to accomplish in hundreds of millions of dead peasants... the next-gen socialists of Europe ...like Greece ... have chosen the slow strangulation that comes from government dependence and reliance upon the meddling government .

Greece ... being a democratic nation ... has freely and willingly placed its life and lives of its children at the mercy of black hearted, self important and self serving bureaucrats within the borders of the nation and ultimately with the even more black hearted commissars of Brussels.

I'd say Greece has become another poster babe to highlight the success of socialism. And it looks good on them. But they have not learned anything from the experience so far.

Greeks do not actually care that they are broke. What they care about is continuing the free ride on the gravy train. And as much as they love to bitch about the demands of the EU and especially the evil Germans ... they have no desire to take responsibility for their own future.

The Germans are NO better. What they and the rest of EU care about is the faint hope of recovering something from the billions of E$ they have pissed down the sewer. Same goes for the pending Spanish and Italian debt defaults.

We should hope and pray that our own government can keep the hell out of this mess.

OMMAG

Seeing the Enemy Within ...

2012-01-27T19:29:00.005-06:00

For American voters .... especially Conservative American Voters .... the real problem is not choosing between Newt and Mitt.

The problem is that they are being denied any other choice. So ... from the GOP caucuses to next year the die is cast. There are big consequences looming for everyone and these clowns think the whole show is about them and what they want.

When Mama Bear has to step in and explain to the brats where they are going wrong ..... you know there is a problem.
It is a very real problem .... the Washington Establishment is the reason that an asshole like Barack Obama can become president .... the reason why FannyMae and FreddyMac got bankrupted .... the reason why those companies and others like Goldman Sachs and General Motors get to suck the blood out of American taxpayers and avoid the consequences of their own greed and incompetence.... and on .... and on it goes.

Americans are being force fed still MORE Washington insiders as the only choices in the upcoming election thanks to the GOP establishment ... and there is probably nothing they can do about it.

Except of course get behind every Tea Party candidate coming up for Senate and Congress ... and state election.

It's bad enough that liberals thrive on and depend on the insider establishment to hold onto power and influence. It is a thousand times WORSE when the supposed alternative to the architects of destruction fall into the same behaviours.

What America needs is an enema administered to the capitol.

OMMAG

American Enterprise Blog

2012-01-26T17:42:00.000-06:00

Good finds on the webs...............

Obama Advisor Larry Summers .... knew damned well the damage that would be done by the Obama doctrines .... so did the O... and didn't really give a shit!

What makes Western Civilization BETTER than Everyone Else ... a primer on how we got to be the best damned society EVER.

OMMAG

Been Waiting for This ...

2012-01-26T07:08:00.000-06:00

State of The Union?

2012-01-25T18:51:00.002-06:00

Or ... just crass disregard for facts and the intelligence of the audience?

The further he tries to spread it .... the thinner it gets.
Like I said in 2008 ... this man is a phony.

What level of respect has this person earned?

As much as he has shown for the USA ... it's institutions and it's people....

Related ...

OMMAG

Nice Bike ............

2012-01-21T12:39:00.001-06:00

From Bike EXIF on Facebook .............. a few pictures of a Concept Enduro Bike based on a Huskvarna 650cc liquid cooled four stroke and using what looks like cross over high performance suspension .... this is the sort of machine that gets my blood boiling.

One look at that beast and I see myself blasting down dirt and gravel backroads in the hills .... mega fun!

Sun TV Experts ... Just as Smart as OTHER network's wonks

2012-01-18T20:12:00.002-06:00

Just a passing chance today that I caught a bit of the Sun TV news financial segment.
Now I do not know who the guy was who they had on presenting himself as an authority but I can lay out for you what he had to say...
The subject was this weeks status quo interest rate non-story and the fact that 1% is a hell of a low prime rate. Among much speculation about the potential for either raising or lowering of the Canadian prime this joker offered the viewers this little nugget from his ... ahem .... mind?
Mr. expert .. opined that the banks like higher interest rates ... because ... they make more money when the prime is higher!

Prime Rate History

Yup! Sure they do sparky .... like when they charge 5% interest on money they pay 1% for? That's a 500% markup by the way. So ... Mr. expert ..... when the prime is ... let's say 4% and the banks mark it up to say 7% .... then you say that is more profit? Or perhaps sparky can actually cite some example where a Canadian Bank marked up the prime MORE than they are doing in today's environment?

Not friggin likely sparky...........

So called expert seems to be both unaware that there are limits to how many points the lenders can get away with adding to borrowed money. Historically .... a few points is about it and the higher the base or prime rate the smaller the margin. Apparently ... Mr. Expert hasn't been around long enough to recall primes that were in the double digits... or ... even what a 5% base rate from the central bank looked like in the lending market.

The last time prime rate started pushing toward double digits banks were lending at 1 point above prime.

Ignorant and innumerate .... some EXPERT you got there SUN TV!

OMMAG

Thinking About Cars ... and Auto Journalism

2012-01-15T21:04:00.002-06:00

There's some rumors running around that Ford is planning to re-introduce a four cylinder engine to the Mustang lineup.

To me this seems like "Deja Vu ... all over again.." (borrowing an old Yogi-ism ). Basically ... remembering these horrendous failures :
Mustang II - possibly the worst car ever made
EXP - The evolutionary joke
Early Fox Bodied Mustangs with four bangers

The Merkur - a quirky misfit with some redeeming qualities in the performance and handling departments
The SVO Turbo - which was not all bad either ... but still a failure as a true performance/enthusiast car

However, the thing that gets me about this train of thought in motoring design/marketing is that it follows the behaviour that leads to the most common trap that North American car companies are prone to find themselves in. The error they make is in thinking that the opinions of motor journalists, who are grasping for something to write about and thus justify their existence, are a sound source of ideas that need to be developed. This is essentially a failure of vision in the design/engineering and product development groups, but the willingness of the marketing people to embrace the perceived wisdom of the chattering cretins in the press combined with the executive office willingness to be guided by false assumptions about what public demand is really based on ... sadly ... seems to wind up on the showroom floors.
Why this bothers me is that it is instead of being offered vehicles that actually are better we ... the automobile buying public ... get crap shoved at us with the attitude that we ... as in you and I ... are too stupid to know what we want or what is good for us. In the process of getting to this point the manufacturers waste hundreds of millions of dollars that could be otherwise used to actually make their products better. The fact that they continue to do this time after time is one of the reasons I have never invested in auto manufacturers and is also one of the reasons the so called Big Three are in the financial state that they are today.

As in the 70s and the 80s the cycle of car development is once again being impacted by the government meddling and arbitrary regulations being imposed by people who simply have no idea what they are doing but are bent on doing it anyway... hang the cost and screw the consequences. The auto company brass are cravenly eager to placate the meddlesome pols and bureaucrats .... foolishly pandering to demands they imagine the public to making.

Hence .... once again ... the Four Cylinder Mustang idea.

Now ... realistically ... the current mustang is a bloated little lump of steel and plastic. It's not bad looking but it has NO SOUL. It is overweight for it's dimensions. It has terrible driver feedback and most of the power plants it comes with are weak feeling if not just sedated and unsuitable for a performance car. The reality of the Mustang is that it is a vehicle with bland characteristics and sporting pretensions. Of course ... if you lay out the cash for one of the high performance packages you do actually get some kickass horsepower. But what is the point of a car that is being sold as raucous driver satisfying beast when it fails to actually inspire? Looking at recent motor-press efforts ... they seem to be mightily confused about just what a Boss 302 or Cobra or GT is supposed to be ... how many of these dummies actually did comparisons between the Mustangs and BMWs?

Frankly ... I don't care how a car that is supposed to be a muscle car/ pony car/ hooligan ride compares to some Euro sedan that is sold primarily to wankers and their girlfriends. I don't really care what they use for a motor and I don't care what knob polishers in the motor-press think.
But ... let's assume for just one moment that the Ford guys were actually serious about producing a four cylinder Mustang. Let's also assume that the reasons for this would be to make the car better.
Then the underlying goals would seem to be less weight and better handling. Part of the rumor mill take on the supposed new mustang is also supposed to be Independent Rear Suspension... which is something that Ford should have made standard in the Mustang decades ago... and the overall benefits to the car and the driver experience would be a lighter and more responsive and more FUN car.
I would heartily approve a a lighter and more responsive car that is more fun to drive... wouldn't you? The speculation on the four banger and the tone from Ford seems to indicate that the four will be an especially potent little mill. All right ... let's say we have a quick revving four that kicks out some impressive numbers and actually has some character.
What is stopping Ford from putting the same character into the V6 or the V8s? The 6s and 8s are NOT currently free revving motors ... they are tuned for low and mid-range torque and have far too much flywheel plus they are severely rev limited ... all in the supposed name of "drivability" which is really marketing wonk code for safe and easy to drive. Same for the handling ... these cars all push the front end when driven hard and are overly soft. Again a lighter and more fun car could be built even with a four banger .... or the 6s or the 8s.

But sadly the guys at ford could have done this years ago by keeping the mustang lean and mean. There never was the need for this car to weigh in at the 3500 lb plus range ... even with the V8 engines. And most of all there never was a need to make the Mustang anything BUT a sports car. And that is the root of the problem.

Please ... DO ... give us a lighter and better handing Mustang ... but don't try to do it while shoving another four cylinder powerplant down our throats.

Related...
While I'm on the topic of motor sports and the motoring press ... I watched a few minutes of Motoring 2012 today. I've never really enjoyed the Motoring TV production because the show is much more of an effort to display and market the cars as products than to actually evaluate and inform in any meaningful way. But today ... one of the talking heads ... Jim Kenzie ... found the need to offer his opinion on the merits of building prisons versus the merits of the federal government regulating traffic safety programs. For the record ... Jim Kenzie clearly does not know what the hell is talking about and should stick to talking about cars .... keeping his political opinions to himself.

Also related ...

The word "bespoke" .... this seems to have cropped up in the last couple of years ... originating as far as I can tell in the British motoring press. The term itself refers to tailor made clothing ... specifically made to order men's clothing and suits. Somehow ... some person in the Automobile Journalism field though it would be clever to describe some car as "Bespoke" ... it seems to have caught on as well in marketing circles and is not limited to the auto industry. However, the frequency of the word "bespoke" appearing in articles related to the automobile and the enthusiast automobile is on the rise.

I think the guy or gal who first applied this esoteric little adjective was being somewhat original and witty. The trend seems to be leading to mindless copy cat repetition and misuse of the word as a pronoun which I find annoying and unnecessary.
In short ... most people you will see using this term are in fact nothing but pretentious knobs who have glommed onto something they think makes them sound more clever and intelligent than they will ever be.

Rant Off /

Something to think about :

OMMAG

Seven Traits of Failure

2012-01-08T21:59:00.005-06:00

Forbes Magazine ... has a short list of executive traits that are common to failed and failing or about to fail companies.

See the list Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Execs .

Seems to me that every company I've ever worked for has promoted or hired these types ....

Another good reason to go find a new job right now.

OMMAG

Climate Gate 2.0 ... Lying Liars and Big Environment $

2012-01-08T21:27:00.001-06:00

At Watts Up With That ... WUWT a sizable list (250) of the over 5000 e-mails contained in the second installment leaked out of CRU and the climate cabal of Jones, Mann, Briffa et al ............ digging done be one Tom Nelson ... well done Tom.

What stands out is the raw determination to justify their preconceptions and in crafting and telling of the big lie.
That and the blatant collusion with the BBC ............
Also notable is the work done by a WUWT commentor ... EM Smith who captures filtered search results of the FOIA emails list using key word searches.

He notes that there are "A Lot of hits..." See the Chiefio ...

What is there to say?
Basically anyone who still thinks this whole climate/disaster/IPCC/UN panic propaganda is legitimate is either willfully blind or just another lying SoB with an agenda.

Now wasn't it just this last week when a bunch of NDP and Liberal types were badmouthing our government for getting out of the UN climate scam??

OMMAG

A Cool take on a retro sport bike....

2012-01-06T17:19:00.002-06:00

I'd definitely want to put some REAL tires on it before I'd try to ride it.

The RD 350 is a real sport bike .... in spite of it's age. Even a stock 350 can smoke the rear tire and break traction in corners at speed. Light weight and quick handling make you want to ride the little bike hard.

And even GOOD tires can be pushed to their limits by an RD 350.......

Nice build and finish by the Analog Motorcycle Shop (Tony Prust) ...

More at Bike EXIF

Cheers!

OMMAG

I Bet Theres Some Harper Bashing On the Way

2012-01-05T21:51:00.002-06:00

Globe & Mail busy pimping doom and gloom .... Vast Majority of Canadians Believe .... country is in recession!

Yeah ... sure ... whatever YOU say.

Apparently it takes three staff writers to craft a non news opinion article based on a poll and some commentary from the rolodex of "experts".

Strangely enough, they never seem to actually get to any discernible point .... although the pre-formed conclusion .... that "Canadians" are unhappy with the economy gets re enforced through repetition.Stay tuned to the G&M ... if you have the patience and stomach ... where you will likely see a number of articles highly ... and most likely falsely ... critical of the government and PM Harper in particular.

This is how the agenda driven media work their memes into the news.

OMMAG

2012 .... It's Going to be a lot of FUN!

2012-01-03T17:40:00.002-06:00

iNoPasaran! found this interesting example of a lefticle's brain spewing.

Not really surprising that the source of this ~~informed opinion~~ shitbrained spew ... is a Hollywood actor ....

Steven Weber

“The scale of Right Wing sociopolitical sabotage necessitates a Nuremberg-scale trial for all the corporate agents and treasonous capitalisto-fascist architects of our democracy’s current and most pressing misery......."

It's almost like he's been taking classes at Columbia U

Either that or an education at columbia is about as useful as a career in television ............

OMMAG

Best of 2011

2011-12-31T13:01:00.009-06:00

Best Harley Based Custom: The Kraus Motor Co. ACHUMA .........

Best TV News Comment :
From Sun TV Mark Bonokowski on the climate bullshit propagation from Canada's little eco fascist ....
" Up yours Suzuki !"

Best Used Car Buy :
The 2002 Audi A4 Quatro with the 3.0 litre 220 HP V6.
Available for under 10 grand this is a sleeper four door compact ... actually smaller than a Ford Focus ... that will deliver great fuel economy. That is when you resist the temptation to put the transmission in Sport Mode and mash the fun pedal. The little bomb has leather heated seats ... a sun roof ... and will cruise all day at illegal speeds on a tank of gas. Top speed is limited to 130 mph by the engine control electronics.


We call her Frieda

Best road trip surprise :

On the summer road trip we had some nice surprises along the way..... Peoria IL was a sleepy little city with a great waterfront walk along the Illinois River. The roadhouse restaurant and tavern just outside Lansing MI off I94 with the awesome sandwich platters. But the best find was a suprise in Indianapolis at the Speedway Golf Course Clubhouse. Indy has a lot to offer for dining out but this little clubhouse is so good and so reasonably priced it would be worth while to put it on the trip agenda anytime we find ourselves in the city.

Best beer find :

That nearly empty glass sitting next to the swanky pork chop is "Flying Monkey's Hoptical Illusion" found in the 50 West restaurant in Guelph ON. Flying Monkeys.....

More to come .....................

Best Autosports Video : The Drift Demo-Ride ....
NSFW

Best property maintenance and landscaping by a friend :


Jed's Farm and Workshop in SW Ontario

Nice Eh?

Best restoration project by a friend :
Jed's 1956 Norton factory race bike ... 500cc twin complete rebuild after a failed Daytona classic bike race bad luck and a grenaded engine.

September 1, 2011

Perhaps not a Best Of .... but an event of NOTE:

2011 was the 70th anniversary of the Telecaster !

Best Jam of 2011 .... Jan 1,2011

Back to Work ....

2011-12-27T17:43:00.005-06:00

Why the hell does my employer think that opening the plant and office for three days is a good idea?

This is beyond me................... the only reason I have for going to work for the next three days is that the policy also makes it mandatory.

If you don't show up or if you have not pre-booked vacation time (which can be denied at the management's whim) then you do not get paid for the statutory holiday (Jan 1st).

Besides the fact that I am a salaried employee it seems to me that if I choose to not go to work ... and give up the pay for those three days... then that should have not a damned thing to do with receiving the statutory pay.

Time for a new job !

File this one under failed HR policies.

OMMAG

Ho Ho Ho

2011-12-24T12:20:00.001-06:00

Just Because It's Friday !

2011-12-23T05:19:00.002-06:00

And Christmas is around the corner.....

Why not put a little edge on it?

Cheers!

OMMAG

The Christmas Door

2011-12-22T19:44:00.001-06:00

A repost from the past ... but the door is essentially the same .............

Thanks everyone!

And Merry Christmas to all of you.

OMMAG

Merry Christmas .... Ya Worthless Slobs

2011-12-20T20:27:00.000-06:00

Most people have heard about the debacle caused by the slobs at Chiquita Bananas ..... all that boycot Canadian Oil stuff .... Well here's what that got them .... !

Of course you may not remember that OMMAG once was a fan of the banana bozos ... Once Upon a Time !

Well it seems like they've learned absolutely nothing from that experience.....

OMMAG

Merry Christmas ... a Treat

2011-12-19T22:07:00.000-06:00

Chocolate Peanut Butter & Bacon Cookies

Small Strong Magnetic Spheres at Play

2011-12-18T19:56:00.000-06:00

Remember when Brits had BALLS?

2011-12-11T21:31:00.002-06:00

Classic Bikers in Oxford face bureaucratic bullying from the local council's army of "Parking Wardens" ..................

VINTAGE motorcycle owners who have been gathering in Oxford's centre on Boxing Day for the last 45 years have been forced out by the council's heavy-handed parking enforcement contract.
The Oxford branch of the Vintage Motorcycle Club (VMCC) have met every year on Boxing Day to show off their motorcycles to locals and tourists before heading out to a pub in the countryside for lunch.
However, the club now find it hard to meet in Oxford due to free bank holiday parking being replaced by parking charges enforced by Oxford council's draconian parking officials, NCP.
The club have been shuffled from their original meeting point to increasingly cramped parking area, then a loading-only bay and the final straw came in 2010 when a minibus containing 10 parking wardens turned up and circled the group.

Read more: http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-news-bizarre/classic-bikers-boxed-out-of-oxford/19655.html#ixzz1gHtuvs6M

Fork ME ....... they're effin glorified Meter Maids .... you bunch of pathetic washed up geezers!

OMMAG

Ridiculously Expensive Stufff

2011-12-11T21:09:00.001-06:00

Every year there is something that catches the eye of the discerning gadget shopper .......
This one gets my vote for being very cool and yeah .... it is not cheap.

I`d put it on my wish list but basically there is no way my wife or kids are going to spring for a set of these $2100 a piece Mini Skull speakers ......................

Cheers

OMMAG

Good Stuff

2011-12-07T19:15:00.002-06:00

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150397147822741.351961.51822757740&type=1

Bike EXIF on FB

A New Candidate for Stupidest Man on the Planet

2011-12-04T18:31:00.002-06:00

US Ambasador Howard Gutman .... the son of Polish imigrants and holocaust survivors...

The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, recently told a conference hosted by the European Jewish Union that Israel is to blame for growing anti-Semitism harbored by people of Muslim faith.

“A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians,” Gutman reportedly said, according to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. “He also argued that an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism.”

I'm sure Obama has kind words for him though...

Filed under Stunning Ignorance .................At The Lumber Jack's lumbercamp ...........

OMMAG

Nothing New under "The SUN"

2011-12-01T23:26:00.005-06:00

As an unapologetic skeptic when it comes to anything in the mainstream media .... I was singularly unimpressed when intentions to launch the SUN News Network were announced .

True ... I was hoping that this development in Canadian broadcasting would provide some relief from the incessantly hopeless news reporting that we are subjected to every day. But, the mere fact that they were pitching their efforts as being a true counter point to the overwhelmingly liberal pregressivist (a cluge of progressivism-with a predisposition failure and objective regression) to social meddling of the MSM in general was something that caused a stir of hope. In the time since the first broadcasts I have gone from being a cheerleader to being a detractor and back on a weekly basis.
Still ... just because they are something more than just another shill for promoting urban liberal viewpoints and progressive ideology ... I continue to hope that they can and will mature into an actual NEWS organization.

However, this hope was slim to start and has been whittled down to a mere willingness to tolerate the flimsy and desperately thin news reportage at SUN TV. It seems that their news editors and producers are cut from the same cheap cloth as those who populate the news rooms of the other networks and the collection of talking heads dredged up from the Sun papers or other previous positions in Quebecor media studios are pretty damned unimpressive. The first thing that came to bother me was the very first day of broadcast when SUN TV producers chose to showcase Krista Erikson .... who I have not forgotten was at the heart of the ridiculous affair (while employed by CBC) of feeding questions and background to the LIberal buffoon Pablo Rodriguez during the Political Theatrics of Karl Heinz Schreiber hearings. Suffice to say that Krista continues to be an embarrassment to everyone dumb enough to associate with her. Let's face it .... Krista care about Krista and is quite capable of anything that she imagines will be good for her personal agenda. Too bad she can't put that much effort into doing an honest job.
But ... I digress .... there was not intention to go off on the failings of SUN news with regard to this one person. In truth .... the bright spots on SUN TV are still fairly interesting ... Ezra Levant seems to have an endless energy and ability to entertain while making a point. The morning news anchors are fairly lucent and capable ... the main problem for them being the lack of resources and actual news material to present and discuss. Adler remains .... as always ... a small time blowhard and bloviator who just manages once in while to make the effort to make a real point. When he does hit on something of substance he usually does the matter justice .... unfortunately ..... too few and far between to put up with the mindless blather he falls back on when he knows he has nothing to offer.

The ONE great failing of this news group though still remains in the back room and the production booth. The typical mindless repetition of whatever comes across the news wires and uncritical presentation of reports that are patently bullshit just irks me to hell and back.

For instance ... this week's credulous repetition on a UN report stating that 2011 has been the warmest year ever and continues to prove the unrelenting increase in global temperatures and all the usual BS that goes along with these propaganda releases from the climate hysteria crowd.

As if no one ever heard of the frauds that have been and continue to be perpetrated by the IPCC and their cadre of bought and paid for activists in the research business.

While the knobs behind the knobs at SUN TV seem to be able to get the facts straight when it comes to the supporting of any of the easily recognizable memes such as CBC waste and intransigence or occasionally identify some NDP buffoonery they remain painfully and patently incapable of understanding the difference between shit and shinola.

Being "Fair and Balanced" in no way obligates someone to be mindless and uncritical.

OMMAG

Just Because ............

2011-11-29T17:42:00.001-06:00

Every once in a while ... a guy just has to go check out the The Lumberjack's Lodge ....

"Yes, I did claim to have had a thirteen-year affair with
Herman Cain, but that was based on old polling data. I

now realize the affair was with Newt Gingrich."

The Little Honda

2011-11-27T22:40:00.003-06:00

Cyclechaos.com

The Little HONDA ........ that iconic scooter from the early 60s that spawned a revolution in the North American motor cycle market.
Actually ... arrived on the scene in 1958 ... but we never saw any until about 1963.

This is the motorbike that more people in this world started riding than any other ... period.

Today a friend and I began a restoration project on an early model ... believed to be a 1963 Super Cub ... a barn find complete with hay and straw stuck in every crevice of the machine....

OMMAG

Thanks to Trudeau .....

2011-11-20T11:25:00.002-06:00

The creative class has a fairly well supported lifestyle ... free of the need to actually do anything useful and .... in general ... those lacking any real ability ... or intelligence ... are free to indulge themselves in "NEW" experience and means of expression... (In other words, ever more disgusting and degenerate behaviour) .... No Pasaran has a fine example on hand ... I'll provide a content warning here, so be advised of that .... if you have a gag reflex attached to your visual processing centers in the brain!

My question is ... did this come from Toronto or Vancouver?

OMMAG

Beer Levitation

2011-11-18T20:53:00.001-06:00

With many thanks to the Sagatious Iconoclast .... AKA ... Vitruvius and his Sixty Symbols page ( SIΧTΨ SγMBΦLS )

Cheers!

OMMAG

It's ALL About the Children .... and the Future ... and The Earth ....Right?

2011-11-16T19:56:00.002-06:00

Kind of interesting how most of these big dollar "Green Initiative" projects get sold to the public with that sort of horse crap! After all ... who can be against "Children" and their "Future" and "Good Old Mother Earth"

Well! When big time connected Democrats profit from government Largess .....

You don't hear Jack Squat in your network news and mainstream bird cage liners accounts of current events.
On the other hand you have people like Andrew Breitbart who seem to be able to find the time to ask a few questions and offer a few facts about these parasites.

Robert F. Kennedy for one .... who got 1.4 Billion Dollars handed to him through one of his pals. That pal who also happened to be an ex employee of Kennedy's business venture ... just happened to get appointed to a Department of Energy position where ..... wait for it! ......he was able to approve the 1.4 billion bucks for his old pal.

Seems the only "children" in this equation are the descendents of Democrat Robber Barons and their future financial security on this Earth.

Did you hear about this in the NEWS ....??

No?

Go Figure ....................

OMMAG

Sunny TV ... Setting the Record Straight

2011-11-11T15:49:00.001-06:00

Found at NoPasaran

Off to See the Band Tonight ...

2011-11-10T17:16:00.003-06:00

Meanwhile ...... back in Paris .... I was embarrassed .... babe...

Streetheart ... a 70's and 80's band .... the guitar guy ... Jeff .... that's my pal .... you should have heard him doing Hendrix riffs when he was 12...... and that's Frank (for Frankenstrat) about which I have a cool quote.
It seems that Jeff used to baby his axe with a heavy duty metal shipping case that weighed about 40 pounds with the guitar inside. So ... with the advent of all the extra airline security and the extra baggage charges .... Frank gets taken along in a cheep nylon gig bag .... cause "Ahhh pffft ... these things are made of solid maple .... they make baseball bats out of maple and last time I checked ... no one was worried about smacking things around with a baseball bat !"

Anyway we're off to see the band tonight along with Mr. & Mrs. Lost Johnny .....

OMMAG

Found on E-Bay

2011-11-06T22:28:00.003-06:00

Update ... from The Kneeslider.com...

Well ... here's something with a little more speed potential ... from the Wile E. Coyote school of go fast by ACME ....

http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2011/11/06/twin-pulsejet-motorcycle-for-sale/

Nevertheless .... these old scoots still have their charms ........

A little bit of history .... a bike like this once belonged to one of my neighbourhood pals ..Honda Trail 90

Not very fast ... but a load of fun

One or Two Questions the Media Should Ask .....

2011-11-03T21:25:00.001-05:00

When they are busy pandering to the useless meat sacks attending OWS protests..... Did you vote in the 08 elections? Who did you vote for?

I'll go out on a limb here an postulate that most of these self righteous twits never did vote ... and I'll add to that ... Those who did probably voted Democrat and Obama.

For the Canadian side ... we are well aquainted with NDP supporters and Greeniots. No guessing needed.

OMMAG

Bureaucrats & "Policies"

2011-11-02T23:13:00.003-05:00

“We do not allow weapons in our schools for any reason,” said Ottawa Carleton District School Board spokeswoman Sharlene Hunter.

A remembrance day event in Ottawa has been cancelled for the time being because the school board bureaucrats have a "policy" on weapons.

Of course the policy they are talking about was obviously one of those post Columbine kneejerks which spread like wildfire across the world following that event.

I have long held the opinion that one of the reasons school boards and school administrations are so prone to taking politically correct stances and making them policy is that it provides an easy way to effect simple ass covering measures and avoid taking responsible positions that might have to be explained or actually thought about from time to time.

The Ottawa school decision is a perfect example of this. After all... guns are dangerous and children should be protected from danger. The school and the school board get to pretend they have done something noble by enacting the ban while simply creating a blind to hide behind in any issue that involves weapons. Now from behind the safety of their curtains (hear no evil - see no evil ....) they self righteously conflate a military commemoration and national tradition with an act of psychotic barbarism.

Of course ... in the world of the petty bureaucrat ... this is simply them being brave and firm in applying the "policy". A policy that quite obviously relieves them of any responsibility for the consequences of such blind enforcement .... quite conveniently.

OMMAG