Posted on 11/08/2010 6:46:31 AM PST by Bumpus2
Does anything convey the power, the austere dignity and awesome responsibility of the stewards of American democracy like the bike helmet?
Why, there’s Ray LaHood, secretary of transportation taking part in a photo op wearing a sleek silver and blue helmet. I dunno about you, but the sight of the late-middle-aged secretary of a multi-billion-dollar cabinet department with his noggin encased in foam and shiny plastic is reassuring to me. Here’s a man who gets it, who’s going to spend my tax dollars not to improve the highway system to facilitate the movement of goods and citizens, but to construct bike lanes for the convenience of a few environmentally enlightened hobbyists.
And when I see the chief executive of this nation sporting an appropriately sober grayish helmet, I understand this: we are screwed.
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Alpha males are rarely liberals IMO.
There was Alexander the Great.
Mike
All alpha male liberals are females.
LOL...I was just about to posy that but decided to look again knowing there was no way I was alone in that thinking
The reason Mike Dukakis, John Kerry, Al Gore and this LaHood guy don’t get away with the “manly” photo-ops such as riding in a tank, hunting or putting on a bike helmet is that their audience KNOWS its all a stupid stunt, things they never do in real life.
The same audience knows when Sarah Palin is hunting or fishing that she has been doing it all her life and its not a stupid photo-op.
It’s part of why the Left goes so berserk about Sarah. They know, perhaps mostly unconsciously, but they know, that she shows up their men in Alpha Male bona fides. Not a good place to be.
Where’s that curtain-hanging picture?
That was quick—thanks!
Algore, in Vietnam, with Arctic sleeping bag rolled up like a girl scout, sweater under new cammo, brand new boonies hat.
After his horrific posting on the ramparts as a journalists, young Algore had his heroic posting cut short to attend divinity school, where he promptly flunked out. Rumors were that he refused and even threatened to carry on his own LURP patrols into the outskirts of Hanoi, but it was only by having his beer roofied by a mysterious full bird Colonel, and him awakening at the family estate in Tennessee, still in his Arctic Vietnam cammo gear, reeking of cheap Philippino beer, and bar tranny perfume, that convinced him that dark satanic forces required him to question his operational foundations.( Later he would redeem his religiosity as the patron saint of global baloney )
I had a pasty gaunt Lithium-adjusted group home resident tell me years ago that I work too hard at being masculine.
At the time I walked away with a little question mark hanging over my head, wondering if that was good or bad.
Now, I would tell him thanks for the compliment.
I think this is a generational thing.
Whenever I see an adult wearing one of those, I immediately think “gay” (not literally, but you know what I mean).
To me, there’s something unmanely about willing to look stupid just to avoid a fairly small risk.
However to younger folks, it’s just plain stupid to not take every precaution possible. Beyond that, it’s like a fashion statement to them that says “I’m a modern man, not a neanderthal”.
The meaning of being a man is has been largely lost in in just a few generations.
I think it started with Alan Alda.
But it also started with soccer:
The green mantra is the triumph of ignorance. They are constructing bike lanes on Happy Creek Road which goes from town to a subdivision where nobody has a bicycle. Anyone dumb enough to ride a bike there now is from out of town.
I am truly surprised anyone was able to find a helmet large enough to contain LaHood’s swelled head. Most likely it's a custom made 5XL model. It doesn't matter because even with his spiffy silver and blue crash helmet, LaHood still looks like and acts like a dork.
LaHood is a living, breathing example of how impossible it is to pickup a turd by the clean end.
Well, in the unlikely event that I were to go back to riding a bike, I'd wear a helmet. But then again, I've had 4 concussions, 3 of which were achieved by doing various things (all of varying low levels of intelligence) on a bike.
My kids are going to wear helmets when bike-riding, too, at least until they're old enough to make an informed decision for themselves.
But, your point is well made. Society has safened us all to death. It's not uncommon for me to see kids at the rec center riding a bike in helmet (prob not a bad idea), elbow and knee pads (not really necessary, IMHO), a mouthguard (?????) and who knows what else underneath their clothes.
The punchline in that their parents, certain in the knowledge that Junior is 100% okey-dokey in his body armor, let him take off unsupervised .....
.....right out into the middle of the road, into heavy traffic, because they didn't bother to teach the kid a lick of common sense. Dumb as I was as a kid I knew that, in general, if you fight with a truck you'll lose.
/rant off. thx for listening.
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