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Posted on 05/05/2004 7:57:51 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
Still round the corner there may wait |
Home is behind, the world ahead, |
Sneak?
Maybe no relaxin' days... but you got your precious! :-)
NOT!
Man, my sneakin' is off today :)
Anyway, I'll have to go back and rewatch those films for Bilbo. I probably didn't notice it was him because I'm used to thinking of that actor as a hobbit-sized midget when I guess he's really not :)
Figgers. Now seatbelts are a "primary" pull-over sort of ticket. Something "they" promised they would never be.
When I win the lottery I want to fund a team of lawyers to fight all of this little nibbly crap that just eats away at the soul.
Have you seen anything about the VVAW's activities in Seattle in the late 60s/early 70s? The reason I was looking that stuff up is there's some stuff in those newly-released FBI files about the VVAW's operation there, and it sounds like they networked with the Communists there (as they did in California), so I'm trying to identify who they might've hooked up with and where I might find more information on that.
I outsneaked myself! :)
This red headed alien. And there's Bilbo looking over her shoulder...
A worthy objective my friend. Seat belt violations are the same here. Disgusting.
Texas also has a really stupid way of dealing with the helmet issue. Anyone under 18 must be protected. People over 18 will be exempt from helmets if A) One has taken the state motorcycle safety course or B) One has at least $10,000 medical insurance coverage.
Insurance coverage through work exempts me. Lots of people take that course though - it just irks me that they require it.
The part that really ticks me off is that if one is exempt you *may* buy a windshield sticker for your bike from the state so any law enforcement officer can see from the sticker that you're legal without a helmut. BUT, the sticker can't be *required* by law. Which means that any rider without a helmut who doesn't buy the sticker can be pulled over.
I didn't buy the sticker because it's a stupid law AND because when they passed that law I had 5 motorcycles and would need one for each bike. BUT, 2 of the bikes didn't have windshields anyway so I'd have had to put the sticker on the front of the tank.... which really couldn't be seen anyway. Also, if you ride anyone else's bike, you can still be stopped. If you buy or trade a bike you have to get a new sticker.
Then too, anyone who really wanted a sticker but didn't qualify *could* buy an old windshield or bike from someone *with* a sticker....
Get my drift on how utterly *STUPID* this is?
Dunno... but I would bet that this would be fertile ground in which to hunt.
Archives at the UW and Evergreen, where they're actually proud of such things, are a good start. The Daily (UW student paper) is another place, along with the Seattle Weekly and The Rocket, both are "alternative" leftist papers. [alternative to what? Like the Seattle Times is a right-wing voice? bwaaahahah]
The UW paper (The Daily) had an archive I saw when I was a student there of the Fire-bombing of the ROTC building in the sixties. Some molotov cocktails were tossed through the windows and the ROTC building was gutted by the resulting fire.
The Daily dutifully reported it as the work of local "heroes". Frankly, I'm surprised that there isn't a memorial statue to them someplace on campus. But then again, this is the place where the main courtyard in the middle of the campus is still known as "Red Square".
It's fun to spot faces from The Movies in other movies... for instace, King Theoden was a goofy inventor in The Scorpion King, as well as the captain of The Titanic...
Oh, yeah... THAT one. Now I remember. :-)
GGGRRRRR... @holes do vex me.
I guess the twisted part of me just prefers to have no "voluntary" sticker so that when I get stopped with no helmet I can show them my proper exemption with my insurance card and force the officer to go away without writing me up. His fault. He oughtta not be stoppin' me for no helmet anyway. Harrassing it is!
Holy cow... I never saw that that was him before. Yikers.
Thanks! He looks a lot different in those pictures!
Didn't know that, either! I remember the goofy inventor character, don't remember what he looked like.
Yah. He was taller. :-)
I never noticed any of that.
Not very observant.
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