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  1. Starting An Ohio Petition To Legalize Lane-splitting - Need Your Help!

    in Daily Ride

    Posted

    Try to get a list of Ohio law makers that have a current

    motorcycle endorsement on their driver's license. 

    Educating them and getting them on board with the

    idea may be a good first step to getting some favorable

    action.

     

    If that doesn't work, we could do what other groups do

    to get their way.  For example, check out what happened

    in France when the Transport Ministry started talking

    about citing bikers for filtering.

     

     

    Like everyone else that whines, cries, and raises hell to

    get their way, where are the Jesse Jackson's and Al

    Sharpton's of motorcycling?

     

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  2. I'm Done For The Year.

    in Daily Ride

    Posted

    I'm real sorry to hear about your spill.

    That stuff happens fast, before you

    can even blink.  It might be a good

    idea to just lay there and catch your

    breath for a moment to see if anything

    starts to hurt, as long as you are not

    likely to get run over. 

     

    I don't know how much more damage

    could be done by jumping up too

    quickly, but just in case, I want to

    know what body parts are going to

    need sewn back together before I

    trust getting back on my feet.

     

    I'm glad it wasn't worse.

     

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  4. Quick Trip Turns Into 120 Miles.

    in Daily Ride

    Posted

    A quick ride after getting off work today sounded like a real good idea.

    I haven't ridden much this year.  There was that spill I took, back in

    April, on the 555, just before the Epic ride out of Logan, with Doc and

    many of you folks.  A pair of bent handle bars kept me from joining in

    on all the fun that weekend.

     

    With rainy weather, heat, and things needing done at home, my time on

    the road this season has been much less than what is required to keep

    me happy.  Today, on the way home from work, I decided that I was going

    riding, even if it was only a trip down and around Buckeye Lake and

    back up to Newark.  That was the plan.

     

    When I got home, I got a bite to eat, geared up, saddled up, and headed

    out. I'd gassed up at the end of my last ride, so after checking my tires all I

    had to do was hit the road.  It was six o'clock when I pulled out of the

    driveway.

     

    Sharon Valley Road is a fast way to get out into the country, from

    where I live in town.  That's the way I went.  I took it to it's end, in Welsh

    Hills, and hung a right.  The plan was to skim across the top of Newark, 

    on Price Rd, and over to Cedar Run, north on Fallsburg Road to Dayton

    Road, and then drop back down on the east side of Newark, near the

    "Basket."  From there, I planned on hitting Staddens Bridge Road to

    Rt 668 south, 204 west, through Thornville and Millersport, then up 37,

    and head home through the back door into Newark from West Main

    Street.  Well, that was the plan.

     

    I hit Fallsburg Road, somehow missed Dayton Road, and kept going.  It

    was a nice day to ride, and I didn't care.  I ended up in Fallsburg and

    decided rather than getting too much farther away from home, since I

    have to work tomorrow, I'll just hang a right onto 586 and drop down

    into Zanesville.   So, 586 to 146, and into Zanesville I went. 

     

    I don't know my way around Zanesville.  I fumbled around a little and

    finally got my bearings.  I figured I would go south of the freeway and

    probably take 22 into  Somerset.  Well, that was the plan, revised.

     

    Have you ever headed out, didn't really know where you were going,

    just picked a direction and went?  Those seem to turn out to be the

    best rides.  I was enjoying this one.  It was evolving as I rode.

     

    I remembered that the mouth of the dreaded 555 was somewhere

    south of I-70.  After a couple wrong turns, a quick check of Google

    Maps put me on the right track.  I couldn't resist.  I hit the 555 and

    headed south.

     

    I must have missed a rain shower because the road was wet.  There

    was a sign saying something about the road being closed on

    weekdays, but I didn't pay any attention to it.  I just kept going.

     

    The temperature was just right and I was enjoying myself.  I was also

    being careful.  That road is a tricky one and I didn't want to limp my

    bike back home a second time.

     

    Shadows were getting longer as the sun was slowly falling out of

    the sky.  It was time to find a route back home.  The map showed

    that in Deavertown, instead of turning left and following 555 south,

    I could just go straight and take 669 west, and then north, into

    Crooksville.  That's what I did. 

     

    669 heads west out of Crooksville, on Ridge Avenue.  I made a left

    and headed west.  Once I connected with SR 13, went through

    Somerset, and turned north, it was smooth sailing back to Newark.

     

    I didn't want to take 13.  Up here, above New Lexington, it's straight

    and it's boring.  But, like I said, shadows were getting long, and I

    have to get up early in the morning.

     

    I saw several groups of riders and some solo riders, like myself.  

    I wonder which of you I passed today, out on the road. 

     

    I pulled into my driveway just before dark, with 102 miles on the

    clock.  It was not my intent to ride half as far as I did, but once

    you are out there, and it's feeling good, it's hard to not keep

    going.  Heaven help me if I ever start riding towards California.

     

    Monday and Tuesday are my days off work.  The weather for both

    days is looking good, so far.  Who's up for a ride?

     

    Monday - 74 degrees with no rain.

    Tuesday - 80 degrees with 20% chance.

     

    .

     

     

  14. Who Says Cops Aren't Smart?

    in Daily Ride

    Posted

    ...New London police interviewed only candidates who

    scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored

    too high could get bored with police work...

     

    The real reason is that they don't want people as officiers

    with the mental capacity to think for themselves, as it's

    become increasingly common knowledge that the courts

    and government agencies are corrupt and simply want

    mindless robots in positions of enforcement.

     

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  17. Sex Offender Awarded Custody Of 6-year-old Girl

    in Dumpster

    Posted

    >>   A judge in Oklahoma City awarded

    custody of a child to 55-year-old Nicholas Elizondo.

     

    >>  The child is Elizondo's 6-year-old daughter.

     

    >>  Elizondo was convicted in 1995 of lewd or lascivious acts

    with a child under 14 years of age.

     

    >>  As for his conviction in 1995, Elizondo said he merely took a

    plea bargain given what he was facing. Elizondo was facing

    11 felony charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14,

    but 10 of those were dismissed in exchange for Elizondo

    pleading no contest to one charge.

     

    >>  The incident happened a few years after Kern County

    prosecutors tried and juries convicted numerous people on child

    sex abuse charges, known as the "Witch Hunt" trials (a string of

    child molestation cases during the 1980s in which 34 people from

    Bakersfield were falsely convicted to hundreds of years in prison.

    People were given long prison sentences.)  Many of those same

    convictions were later tossed out after an appellate court

    found the accused had been wrongly convicted.

     

    Allegedly, Kern County prosecutors used coercive techniques to

    get children to testify against their own parents, and... every

    conviction was ultimately overturned.

     

    "We were forced to say that a gentleman named John Stoll

      had molested us. I was one of the children that convicted

    him," said Victor Monge.

     

    Monge says the allegations against Stoll were false. Monge now

    an adult, says he was coerced by investigators to tell them what

    they wanted to hear.

     

    >>  During a court hearing in Oklahoma City regarding visitation,

    the victim, who authorities say was molested by Elizondo, testified

    that she was never molested.

     

    >>  Knight fabricat(ed) a story recently in order to keep her

    daughter from being awarded to Elizondo.

     

     

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    Malpractice cases

    During the late 1990s, there were multiple lawsuits in the United States in which psychiatrists and psychologists were successfully sued, or settled out of court, on the charge of propagating iatrogenic memories of childhood sexual abuse, incest and satanic ritual abuse.  Some of these suits were brought by individuals who later deemed their recovered memories of incest and/or satanic ritual abuse to be false.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory_syndrome

     

     

    False allegation of child sexual abuse

    A false allegation of child sexual abuse is an accusation that a person committed one or more acts of child sexual abuse when in reality there was no perpetration of abuse by the accused person as alleged. Such accusations can be brought by the alleged victim, or by another person on the alleged victim's behalf.

     

    Of the allegations determined to be false, only a small portion originated with the child, the studies showed; most false allegations originated with an adult bringing the accusations on behalf of a child, and of those, a large majority occurred in the context of divorce and child-custody battles. They may also have occurred when someone was getting back at someone else, if they get rejected for a promotion (for example) or to cover up an affair in cultures that frown on extramarital sex. There is also indication as with other alleged sex offences that the UK system of paying compensation, (quite substantial), can provide a motive for allegations being made.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_allegation_of_child_sexual_abuse

     

     

     

    It seems the mother has no problem lying.

     

    There is evidence to support that the father was falsely convicted.

     

    False memories being implanted in children in order to convict someone of

    sexual abuse is nothing new.

     

    I don't know why the mother should have custody, over the father.  I would

    suggest the father have custody and let the mother do the visiting.  Women

    want equal rights.  Well, here it is.

     

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  19. new rider - first bike advice

    in Daily Ride

    Posted

     Virtually all noobs drop the bike at least once.

     

     

    Also, I would say one really important, often overlooked, thing to teach her is how to pick the bike up by herself.

     

     

    I was going to mention about the Ninja 500 weighing 440 lbs. with a full tank.

    Don't get a bike you can't pick up by yourself when you are alone in the

    middle of nowhere, with darkness and rain clouds rapidly approaching.

     

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