Tpoppa

You're kidding right?

Your analolgy doesn't fit. I can choose not to buy gas, pay the gas tax, or buy auto insurance. I can walk or ride a bicycle, stay home, etc. In the case of APA, I am being taxed for NOT buying a consumer product. You can call it a tax or a fine or a penalty or a kick in the balls. Either way it's money leaving your pocket because you didn't buy a consumer product.

No, they can't decide anything, it's been mandated.

The decision leaves in place the so-called individual mandate -- the requirement on Americans to have or buy health insurance beginning in 2014 or face a penalty -- although many are exempt from that provision. In 2014, the penalty will be $285 per family or 1% of income, whichever is greater. By 2016, it goes up to $2,085 per family or 2.5% of income.

Not just related to this outcome...or the Obama administration...I would also include legislation like the Patriot act... ...Our government is looking more and more like the one our Founding Fathers found intolerable about 237 years ago.

The mandate. Specifically, federally imposed financial penalties for not purchasing a consumer product. Now that the Supreme Court has set this precedent will it appear in other legislation? I see this as dangerous.

IMO, this is a dangerous precedent.

Triple digits are not necessary for a spirited group ride. I am willing to assume the risk of a speeding ticket. I am NOT willing to assume the risk of spending the night as a guest of the county, or seeing my bike dangling from the back of a tow truck.

Sounds like you have someone in mind.

I like to cover lotsa miles, which means a fairly brisk pace and keeping stops short. High corner speeds, moderate speed in straights (tends to keep the group from getting too spread out by traffic, curves, etc). I like riding with quick groups, but don't mind a dialing it down if someone wants to work on technique.

If you are feeling like you are going to fast...you are. You shouldn't be trying to go fast anyway. Your goal should be smoothness. Confidence & speed will come after that. If you aren't feeling smooth, there is reason for it. It can be a simple as changing your line entering the corner or changing where you are looking (you should be looking through a corner not at the pavement right in front of your tire). It may be other reasons, too. This is a good conversation for a gas stop.

He deserves any horrible shit that may happen to him.

Holly, would he want to drive to N Ridgeville? It's probably an hour drive from Akron.

I need to get a couple rooms painted this week in North Ridgeville. Anyone know a good painter in the area?

We used to talk body position, lines, technique at stops on group rides. It seem like those conversations don't happen as much any more.

Come on a ride. after a couple of gas stops we'll get it figured out. By any chance are you worried about running wide in lefts and taking a line that is too far inside? that can cause a couple problems.

If by somehow (like a jury full of PSU alums ) he is found innocent, I wouldn't be surprised if someone shoots his creepy ass.

http://cleveland.craigslist.org/mcy/3094095991.html If I didn't just buy a house this week, I would for sure buy this. Someone should grab this.

The US military invests significantly more training $$ into each person than any other employer that comes to mind. Of course they aren't going to let you leave until they get ther money's worth out of you. That's one of the reason for contracts. It's a lifestyle that you can't really understand until you're living it.

Unless you have been in the military, you can't understand the lifestyle. Thanks are fine, but i doubt many civilians understand what they are actually thanking for.

Justice was served and a cancer was removed from the gene pool. If that guy has to go to trial I am sending him $100 to help with legal expenses.

Cool bike.

Why is someone always pushing a kawasaki?

So are you rolling out of circle k by 8:15? I may be at the bp just south of US 71. don't stop though, ill latch onto the back of the group.

What time will you be passing through Lodi?