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Well, this is great news. If some dumb bitch kills me while doing her makeup, my death won't really count since she was legitimately distracted and not doing something malicious like typing "ROFL BFF WTF" on her iphone. Awesome.

.357 revolver, unless you're proficient with semi-autos or have intentions on learning how to be. Get some training, that's more important than having the gun. Just having it won't make you good at home defense any more than having a guitar will make you a musician. Takes training to learn what stupid things NOT to do when it matters.

Good luck, keep on fighting!!

Depends on the size of the bike. Saw 6 but they were dirt bikes, very tight. I imagine 4 sport bikes would be stretching it, and after that weight might be an issue not just size.

Rip.

If you include the new Trans West Virginia Trail and stuff that others have added, you can actually run it from eastern PA or Maryland all the way out too....the West Virginia portion goes to Jellico to the start of the TAT. I plan on riding the TWVT this summer, as a 3-4 day "mini-TAT".

He's got nice shoes and, an umbrella, a great set of bags, I don't see where he's really being deprived of the finer things. Maybe he's just sleepy. His carbon footprint is admirably low, I'd say. Al Gore approves of his choices.

I can't remember the figures offhand, but I know that my rack + panniers are lighter than the Happy Trails, the rack may be the real difference I don't really know it's been a while since I compared them. The Motech is a cool rack, strong but minimal as far as how much metal is on it.

I looked at the Happy Trails really closely, nice quality from everything I've read. I ended up going with ABS/Pelicans on Motech racks in the end, I thought the durability light weight and ease-of-removal sold me, but the Tetons are rock solid.

The BHOF had the stink of SEC beatdowns all over it, it made people queazy.

Wait, didn't Toby Hoover promise that if we passed Concealed Carry there would be blood in the streets, and gung-ho cowboys would be drawing their penis-extensions at every chance? Hasn't that happened? Surely our violent crime rate soared. Surely. Gun control nuts have to deal with the empirical data of 38 states of concealed carry success, including states where NO permit is needed and crime is lower than states where there is NO concealed carry....and yet they still devolve into histrionics and hand-wringing. It makes you wonder how long you can be wrong until people believe you're A: retarded or B: evil?

Typically a dual sport or plated dirt bike is the cheapest bike on the actuarial tables to insure. I pay $65 a year for my TTR (liability only). Of course, I'm not 16 either, so you'll pay more than I do but if you shop around it should be a very cheap bike to insure.

You implying that all elderly people are confined to nursing homes, or receive their care there? Jesus Christ dude. I don't even know how to argue with shit like that. I don't think I have to. Google "illegal immigrants strain healthcare" or any number of common sense search criteria, and you'll spend the rest of the week reading about such drains on hospitals, doctors, etc. Here, first thing that popped up for about 32,000 hits: http://www.amarillo.com/stories/111906/new_6100844.shtml This is like playing tennis with a wall. The ball keeps coming back, but I'm not sure the wall understands the game and for sure the volleys aren't very imaginative. Try harder.

It's not good for them with unchecked illegal immigration, either. Fixed income people need a lot of the services that illegals choke the system with, including health care. Oh, but this is all about caring about everyone.

Well, I'm all for eroding the safety of our nation, ignoring immigration law and paying for all the freeloaders as long as my shit is cheap. Fuck yeah. Or, we could just make work visas a little easier to achieve, and allow the honest hardworking folks a chance to come here and do what needs to be done. I'd pay a little more for services, if it would improve our situation and theirs. Or, we could just keep on letting them pour across the borders with the criminals and shit heads running right with them, and allowing them to live off the grid like non-people. That's mighty white of us.

What word of Malkin's am I taking? She's not telling stories, she's quoting Mexican law. You can google that law, she's not exaggerating or changing it. And, I asked you about crossing the southern Mexican border, not visiting their cities. There's a reason I mentioned it, because that southern border is FUCKING TIGHT, and you can observe the scrutiny they give their southern neighbors (and how this might change your perception of their immigration policies and criticism of our own). Again, avoiding my point completely. I guess its easier to change the argument than face an untenable position.

I'd stuff a $1 in either one's panties, if there were free wings that night.

It's not dumb shit, in fact it's a salient and important point in this whole debate, and so far nobody seems to be schooling me on anything, except how to throw around the insults unprovoked. I'll quote a good point where I find it, whether it's Malkin or Christopher Hitchens, or NPR, I'm not an idealogue for anyone, a good point is a good point. Did you read this in the above? This is the part that follows what you claim are her generalizations. She does not contend that Mexico is efficient or universal with their policy & law, only that it exists. Think about that for a minute, ruminate on it. Stupid shit I posted? It's directly from Mexican law, quoted from Michelle Malkin, who does not claim Mexico is enforcing all of these immigration policies, only that there exists a hypocricy about what Mexican officials have for their own country and what they demand of us.

Have you, out of curiosity, crossed the southern Mexican border? I have. I suggest you do so before speaking so authoritatively on how Mexican border enforcement works, and on whom. BTW, what Malkin is quoting is their law & policy, not their enforcement (read it again)....and what is being criticized in Arizona right now is exactly that, the law and the hysteria about how it will be enforced, not the actual incidents of people being stopped or the conditions of that law being in effect.

10 points for patronizing, infantile retort that misses the point. The argument in the terms she framed it is 100% accurate. Mexico cultivates, encourages, and ultimately profits from the illegals coming into our country, yet they are iron-fisted when dealing with immigration of the exact same type....and have the audacity to complain about our enforcement of our borders, claiming xenophobia and racism when they practice it wholesale. If you despise the right wing pundits so much, it must be doubly frustrating when they're outsmarting you.

Just saw this, thought it was interesting: Police state: How Mexico treats illegal aliens By Michelle Malkin • April 28, 2010 12:36 AM This is what a “police state” looks like My syndicated column today responds to Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s demagoguery on Arizona’s immigration enforcement law. Calderon has a long history of bashing the U.S. — and then getting rewarded for it with billions of dollars in foreign aid (see here, here, and here). I reported on Calderon’s aggressive meddling on behalf of illegal aliens through his government consulate offices in America here. Heather Mac Donald published a thorough investigation of the Mexican government meddle-crats here. Allan Wall has reported on it for years. Mike Sweeney, an Arizona Republic letter-writer underscores my column theme today: “Having traveled into Mexico last year to various cities on the Baja Peninsula, a distance of more than 1,000 miles round-trip, we were stopped more than 20 times at various checkpoints. At most of those stops, we were told to exit the vehicle and we were subjected to rigorous inspections. Where does Mexican President Felipe Calderón get off with his hypocritical outrage at our Senate Bill 1070?” Where indeed? *** How Mexico treats illegal aliens by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2010 Mexican President Felipe Calderon has accused Arizona of opening the door “to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement.” But Arizona has nothing on Mexico when it comes to cracking down on illegal aliens. While open-borders activists decry new enforcement measures signed into law in “Nazi-zona” last week, they remain deaf, dumb or willfully blind to the unapologetically restrictionist policies of our neighbors to the south. The Arizona law bans sanctuary cities that refuse to enforce immigration laws, stiffens penalties against illegal alien day laborers and their employers, makes it a misdemeanor for immigrants to fail to complete and carry an alien registration document, and allows the police to arrest immigrants unable to show documents proving they are in the U.S. legally. If those rules constitute the racist, fascist, xenophobic, inhumane regime that the National Council of La Raza, Al Sharpton, Catholic bishops and their grievance-mongering followers claim, then what about these regulations and restrictions imposed on foreigners? – The Mexican government will bar foreigners if they upset “the equilibrium of the national demographics.” How’s that for racial and ethnic profiling? – If outsiders do not enhance the country’s “economic or national interests” or are “not found to be physically or mentally healthy,” they are not welcome. Neither are those who show “contempt against national sovereignty or security.” They must not be economic burdens on society and must have clean criminal histories. Those seeking to obtain Mexican citizenship must show a birth certificate, provide a bank statement proving economic independence, pass an exam and prove they can provide their own health care. – Illegal entry into the country is equivalent to a felony punishable by two years’ imprisonment. Document fraud is subject to fine and imprisonment; so is alien marriage fraud. Evading deportation is a serious crime; illegal re-entry after deportation is punishable by ten years’ imprisonment. Foreigners may be kicked out of the country without due process and the endless bites at the litigation apple that illegal aliens are afforded in our country (see, for example, President Obama’s illegal alien aunt — a fugitive from deportation for eight years who is awaiting a second decision on her previously rejected asylum claim). – Law enforcement officials at all levels — by national mandate — must cooperate to enforce immigration laws, including illegal alien arrests and deportations. The Mexican military is also required to assist in immigration enforcement operations. Native-born Mexicans are empowered to make citizens’ arrests of illegal aliens and turn them in to authorities. – Ready to show your papers? Mexico’s National Catalog of Foreigners tracks all outside tourists and foreign nationals. A National Population Registry tracks and verifies the identity of every member of the population, who must carry a citizens’ identity card. Visitors who do not possess proper documents and identification are subject to arrest as illegal aliens. All of these provisions are enshrined in Mexico’s Ley General de Población (General Law of the Population) and were spotlighted in a 2006 research paper published by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Security Policy. There’s been no public clamor for “comprehensive immigration reform” in Mexico, however, because pro-illegal alien speech by outsiders is prohibited. Consider: Open-borders protesters marched freely at the Capitol building in Arizona, comparing GOP Gov. Jan Brewer to Hitler, waving Mexican flags, advocating that demonstrators “Smash the State,” and holding signs that proclaimed “No human is illegal” and “We have rights.” But under the Mexican constitution, such political speech by foreigners is banned. Noncitizens cannot “in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.” In fact, a plethora of Mexican statutes enacted by its congress limit the participation of foreign nationals and companies in everything from investment, education, mining and civil aviation to electric energy and firearms. Foreigners have severely limited private property and employment rights (if any). As for abuse, the Mexican government is notorious for its abuse of Central American illegal aliens who attempt to violate Mexico’s southern border. The Red Cross has protested rampant Mexican police corruption, intimidation and bribery schemes targeting illegal aliens there for years. Mexico didn’t respond by granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens, as it is demanding that we do. It clamped down on its borders even further. In late 2008, the Mexican government launched an aggressive deportation plan to curtain illegal Cuban immigration and human trafficking through Cancun. Meanwhile, Mexican consular offices in the United States have coordinated with left-wing social justice groups and the Catholic Church leadership to demand a moratorium on all deportations and a freeze on all employment raids across America. Mexico is doing the job Arizona is now doing — a job the U.S. government has failed miserably to do: putting its people first. Here’s the proper rejoinder to all the hysterical demagogues in Mexico (and their sympathizers here on American soil) now calling for boycotts and invoking Jim Crow laws, apartheid and the Holocaust because Arizona has taken its sovereignty into its own hands. http://michellemalkin.com/2010/04/28/police-state-how-mexico-treats-illegal-aliens/

Hell, half this forum is having trouble with the English language. Let's not get too carried away.

You can apply that same scenario and differing results to age too. Elderly people can get away with shit a young, clean, white man can't. Racism, sexism, ageism, whatever. Wanna be a butt-hurt victim your whole life? You'll always find you can fit into some category that's being held down, abused, etc. If all you ever select to be in your life is the color of your skin, your gender, your age, your sexual proclivity, don't be surprised if that's all people see.

Alteration Station, 8497 Sancus Blvd. They did mine, only charged me $8. They've also repaired quite a few things on my jackets, bags, etc. They do excellent work. There's also a shoe-repair place in Newark I've used, they're good too...but probably out of your way.

Let me guess, this Sheriff was a [foreboding music] white person [/foreboding music], wasn't he? Hate monger.