Hey,
It’s that time. We need to figure out the Bikernet e-mail Christmas card. We scramble so hard around here, shopping seems along way off. I ran across a book from Marilyn Stemp called The Last Lecture. It’s a cool motivational read, so I bought a batch of them for Xmas presents. We all need some motivation.
Ray C. Wheeler is jumping up and down about 2014. I finished my crate to ship all my Assalt Weapan II material to Kent Weeks in Houston, so hopefully it will roll out next week. I’m not going to shift into my diatribe about the goals for next year–I might start drinking again.
REAL OR FAKE–
The stone I mean!
–from Paul Aiken
Owner
Aeromach USA, LLC
10015 Metromont Ind. Blvd, Ste F
Charlotte, NC 28269
800-990-9392 orders
704-599-1333 office
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The NHTSA deputy administrator, David Friedman, will be taking over as acting administrator.
It will be telling, as Secretary Foxx replaces the top seats at two major positions of the DOT, just what direction he plans on taking the Department under his watch.
–Jeff Hennie
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POOP—A couple of brothers were searching out an Italian deli across town, when they spotted and were completely distracted by this sign. They missed their deli and had to ride around the block to get back on track again.
–from FTW James
NEW GIANT SHOW COMING TO HAWAII SPONSORED BY BIKERNET.COM–Brothers..Thankyou for your help, maybe you should get your butt over here for this event. sure you could use some R & R
–Aloha Chris,
Hawaii’s Official Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show will be an annual event, which will provide a unique marketing opportunities for companies with their products and services directed to the entire motorcycle & motor vehicle community and industry a new target market for their products & services to be promoted and displayed at. The event will offer unlimited opportunities for a broad spectrum of merchandise, activities, services to be displayed, demonstrated, which will be sold through personal contact and tantalizing visuals at the Event.
This event would be the perfect opportunity for your businesses to reach the Motorcycle Industry with your products & Services to be sold to all these motorcycle riders to both man & woman in Hawaii. Support Our Mission: Hawaii Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show, LLC is committed to making this event the premiere Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show of its kind in Hawaii.
The event will encourage a healthy, happy, safe and fun event even, promoting financial well-being for those exhibitors and sponsors that participate. The target audience will be ALL motorcyclist enthusiast, young adults, and adults of all ages independent bikers and bike clubs and motorist.
This is a great opportunity to exhibit and sell your products and services to more than 100,000 and growing motorcycle enthusiasts in Hawaii and the curious is expected to attend.
Support Our Goal: Is to improve the quality of life for the people of Hawaii by promoting & raising “Riders Awareness & Riders Safety” through education, enforcement and outreach to the community and defensive rider & driver tips that will surely educate the general public at this family fun event at Hawaii’s First Annual Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show. As well as working towards bringing down Hawaii’s National Ranking of motorcycle fatalities, which Hawaii ranks #3.
The Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show will also benefit the Public Schools of Hawaii Educational Foundation.
The Hawaii Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show will be organizing a drop off point at the event where riders and anyone that attends can donate school supplies that will be donated to the Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation, which the school supplies will distributed to various schools around Hawaii needing the school supplies. Hawaii’s Motorcycle Rally & Bike Show is projecting over 6,000 motorcycle riders & consumers in attendance for this event. If you’re interested in being a part of this exciting new & annual event call me or email me to discuss sponsorship or vendor opportunities for businesses.
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“AN EXPLOSIVE BIKE RALLY THAT WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!”
MYSTERY ENGINE OF THE WEEKEND– I want one, it’s a Desmo Harley Engine…. now just got to figure out who the hell built it.. and How frikkin much it cost.
Its a piece of engineering art… need to find out more details.. I have been able to dig up it was built about 5 years ago by a Chris Barber. Probably more an engineering study than an improvement but still pretty awesome.
–Richard P. Kranzler
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WEEKEND BAD COPS FILE OPENED–Cops Should Not Be Allowed To keep and or Profit from Confiscated Items. We have watched this abuse for way too long.
If in fact, there are grounds to confiscate property it should go to a unrelated source like schools that would eliminate doing it for their profit.
If they are personally profiting watch a good part of it going away. Motorcyclist may want to see similar actions being done by the Motorcycle Task Force.
Stop the Biggest Gang in The Country From Stealing Your Stuff!
–ROGUE
Connecticut Police Chiefs Honor Legislator Who Opposed Forfeiture Fund Reappropriation
When the state was looking for ways to reduce debt over the past couple years, Aresimowicz stood tall against those who suggested using assets seized in police investigations to balance the budget and remained steadfast that a portion of the assets go to local departments instead.
These efforts have now brought Aresimowicz, D-Berlin and Southington, into the spotlight as he was awarded with the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association’s 2013 Legislative Award on Thursday. “Joe Aresimowicz has distinguished himself over the years as a true champion of the law enforcement community,” said Southington Police Chief Jack Daly, president of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association.
“I’m honored to be presenting this award to him as the President of the Connecticut Police Chiefs Association—and as the the Chief of one of the two towns he represents. We in Southington are very fortunate to have him representing us in Hartford.” Daly said the award is given to legislators that have stood out and strongly supported police issues.
Aresimowicz was singled out for his leadership in protecting the ability of Connecticut’s local police departments to keep a portion of seized property and assets, he said. Aresimowicz said that municipal police departments depend on the funds from the seized assets to fight crime and balance their budgets. “Berlin is fortunate to have Joe Aresimowicz as our state representative. He has a great concern for public safety and has repeatedly demonstrated his support for our department and law enforcement in general,” said Berlin Police Chief Paul D. Fitzgerald.
It’s a fundamental duty of legislatures to control the purse strings for executive branch agencies. When legislatures fall down on this important duty, as the Connecticut legislature has under the direction of Joe Aresimowicz, citizens are deprived of a fundamental check on their ability to constrain the behavior of the executive branch through their representatives. Moreover, this unappropriated revenue stream gives law enforcement special interests a direct financial incentive in the laws that create forfeitable revenue.
This turns cops into de facto legislators, with powerful incentives to manipulate the political process. As Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaker Diane Goldstein notes:
Law enforcement has long relied on the cliché “we don’t make the laws, we just enforce them” when called to task for their role in enforcing unjust laws. For many years this was the case, but in the last two decades the increased lobbying of law enforcement organizations – some motivated by considerations other than upholding the law or improving public safety – has undermined the role of police professionals by making them just one more special interest group.
Lobbying by law enforcement organizations is big business. It has contributed to the policy of mass incarceration as well as misprioritized law enforcement resources that emphasize the prosecution of drug offenses over violent crime. This lobbying has diverted critical fiscal resources from competing governmental services like education, health care and public infrastructure. All this has been done under leaders who are not working as stakeholders and collaborative partners with the voters, but simply protecting their own self interests.
It is up to the Connecticut Legislature to take back their legislative powers of the purse by ending the practice of funding law enforcement through asset forfeiture. Without this reform, Connecticut’s citizens will continue to have their rights eroded by law enforcement special interests.
— Jason Vallee reports at the Berlin Patch:
–from Rogue
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Thursday SHOW ACTION NEWS For Thursday, December 12, 2013
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=11447
u need to interveiw ron grottinelli .He fought hd for years to use the name hog shop instead of being a fucking commercial for hd . HE WON
George Mcdonald
georgemcdonald1954@yahoo.com
Stoneville, NC 27048
BIKERNET FEATURE OWNER RECEIVE CHOPPERFEST PRIZE—Asian Dan does it again.
BIKERNET EXCLUSIVE CHRISTMAS INVESTIGATION–When four of Santa’s elves got sick, the trainee elves did not produce toys as fast as the regular ones, and Santa began to feel the Pre-Christmas pressure.
Then Mrs. Claus told Santa her Mother was coming to visit, which stressed Santa even more.
When he went to harness the reindeer, he found that three of them were about to give birth and two others had jumped the fence and were out, Heaven knows where.
Then when he began to load the sleigh, one of the floorboards cracked, the toy bag fell to the ground and all the toys were scattered.
Frustrated, Santa went in the house for a cup of apple cider and a shot of rum. When he went to the cupboard, he discovered the elves had drunk all the cider and hidden the liquor.
In his frustration, he accidentally dropped the cider jug, and it broke into hundreds of little glass pieces all over the kitchen floor. He went to get the broom and found the mice had eaten all the straw off the end of the broom.
Just then the doorbell rang, and an irritated Santa marched to the door, yanked it open, and there stood a little angel with a great big Christmas tree.
The angel said very cheerfully, ‘Merry Christmas, Santa. Isn’t this a lovely day? I have a beautiful tree for you. Where would you like me to stick it?’
And thus began the tradition of the little angel on top of the Christmas tree.
Not very many people know this.
–from Mike DiSalvo
BIKERNET UNIVERSITY IS ON HOLIDAY BREAK, YET WE WERE STILL ABLE TO PULL ONE WORD FROM THE BASTARDS IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT–misoneism mis-oh-NEE-iz-uhm, mahy-soh-, noun:
But it is necessary to note that hereditary anomaly, if it provokes an anomaly in the moral sense, also suppresses misoneism, the horror of novelty which is almost the general rule of humanity.
…he saw he was the only one to stand ready for the new thing, because the others were all exhibiting symptoms of misoneism.
Misoneism comes from the Greek miso- + neos meaning “hatred” and “new.”
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Indian Motorcycle Big Chief Custom
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=11449
Nice!!! I’d sell my Big Dog for one of these.
–Mike
slamon@sbcglobal.net
Windsor, CT
DR. FENG MISSES HIS 650 ATK—Dr. Feng, is the Bikernet Feng Shui expert, changing lives with his Chinese Astrology research. He is also the Bikernet Official Certified Welder, and is currently welding on oil rigs in Taft, California in 19 degrees while lying in the mud. It’s a nasty job, but out thoughts are with him.
BIKERNET HISTORIAN INVESTIGATES TWO COLLECTIONS–Most of the pictures taken @ Morrie’s Place or Tony’s place. We don’t know what the hell Pablo is doing, installing compressors, checking antique motorcycles or looking for Bikernet babes.
–Bandit
GUN NUT REPORT, BATFE Implicated in More Rogue Operations–Over the last several years, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) has been plagued by mismanagement, scandal and rogue operations, the most infamous of which has been the ill-fated and deadly “Fast and Furious” debacle. Despite these ongoing problems and the criticism and calls for reform they have generated, BATFE has continued its practice of questionable tactics and judgment.
In fact, over the course of the last week, numerous media outlets have reported on yet another dubious BATFE operation–this one lowering the bar to a new, disturbing level.
As Fox News reports, BATFE agents in cities across the country used rogue tactics to go after guns on the street by allegedly luring mentally ill individuals to participate in sting operations, then later arresting many of these same individuals. There are also reports that BATFE agents allowed minors to smoke pot and drink alcohol in connection with these operations.
The allegations against BATFE came about as a result of an in-depth investigation earlier this year by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which exposed an ill-conceived BATFE sting in Milwaukee that included agents hiring a brain-damaged man to promote an undercover storefront and then arresting him for his work.
According to the latest Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on the issue, BATFE officials told Congress the failed Milwaukee operation was an isolated case of inadequate supervision.
But apparently it was not. Instead, it appears that it was part of a pattern of questionable activities in several states.
The Journal Sentinel article reports that among the findings of the investigation were the following revelations:
¦ BATFE agents befriended mentally disabled people to stimulate business and later arrested them in at least four cities in addition to Milwaukee. In Wichita, BATFE agents referred to a man with a low IQ as “slow-headed” before deciding to secretly use him as a key figure in their sting. Agents in Albuquerque gave a brain-damaged drug addict with little knowledge of weapons a “tutorial” on machine guns, hoping he could find them one.
¦ Agents in several cities opened undercover gun- and drug-buying operations in safe zones near churches and schools, allowed juveniles to come in and play video games and teens to smoke marijuana, and provided alcohol to underage youths. In Portland, Ore., attorneys for three teens who were charged said a female agent dressed provocatively, flirted with the boys and encouraged them to bring drugs and weapons to the store to sell.
¦ As they did in Milwaukee, agents in other cities offered sky-high prices for guns, leading suspects to buy firearms at stores and turn around and sell them to undercover agents for a quick profit. In other stings, agents ran fake pawnshops and readily bought stolen items, such as electronics and bikes–no questions asked–spurring burglaries and theft. In Atlanta, agents bought guns that had been stolen just hours earlier, several that were taken from police cars.
¦ Agents damaged buildings they rented for their operations, tearing out walls and rewiring electricity–then stuck landlords with the repair bills. A property owner in Portland, Ore., said agents removed a parking lot spotlight, damaging her new $30,000 roof and causing leaks, before they shut down the operation and disappeared without a way for her to contact them.
¦ Agents pressed suspects for specific firearms that could fetch tougher penalties in court. They allowed felons to walk out of the stores armed with guns. In Wichita, agents suggested a felon take a shotgun, saw it off and bring it back–and provided instructions on how to do it. The sawed-off gun allowed them to charge the man with a more serious crime.
¦ In Pensacola, BATFE hired a felon to run its pawnshop. The move widened the pool of potential targets, boosting arrest numbers. BATFE’s pawnshop partner was later convicted of pointing a loaded gun at someone outside a bar. Instead of a stiff sentence typically handed down to repeat offenders in federal court, he got six months in jail–and a pat on the back from the prosecutor.
Rest assured, we’ll keep readers apprised of any new developments in the investigation and reporting of these shocking allegations.
–NRA
BIKERNET HOLIDAY FAMILY COUNSELING MEMO–Text from daughter to mom:
“Hello mom, I need your advice. I have some of my boyfriend’s cum stuck in my hair. How do I get it out? Will I have to cut it out?”
Text from mom to daughter:
“It’s nice you can send me such a frank text. No, you won’t have to cut it out. I’ve had loads of cum in my hair over the years and it will just wash out.”
Daughter back to mom:
“OMG, mom…..sorry, I misspelled gum.”
–Jim Waggaman
THIS HAS BEEN A HELLUVA WEEKEND—I’m a nut. I try to balance pleasure with work projects for a balanced approach, but as the economy tanked and my woman peeled out to greener pastures, the equation shifted. But this weekend I found the Dharma balance once more. I rode the Mudflap Girl FXR to Bennett’s Performance for their annual charity toy run and this afternoon we are headed to Jeremiah’s for his barbecue birthday bash.
It was so cool to get out and ride, but on the other hand was my daunting list of projects. We are working on another room in the Bikernet Headquarters, just the stairwell to Ray C. Wheeler’s penthouse apartment. It started as a paint and detailing project, then we decided to rewire, and we tore some lath and plaster off the wall and discovered a plumbing issue, then a structural issue. One thing lead to another.
I need to work on Splintered Road, my screenplay. I needed to write a life and Times of Bandit, which will be modified to launch our first Mad Jack Girl of Bikernet. I need to deal with some tenants who can’t ever seem to pay their rent, and finally, the Assalt Weapon II crate had to be finished.
I’m proud to say that all three major projects were addressed successfully this weekend, except for the screenplay. The weekend ain’t over.
Relax and enjoy the holidays.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
