Posted on 06/01/2008 11:07:48 AM PDT by rottndog
Three hundred thousand bikers spent Memorial Day weekend roaring around Washington in tribute to our war dead, and I stood on Constitution Avenue Sunday afternoon watching a river of them go by, waiting for a gap in the procession so I could cross over to the Mall and look at pictures. The street had been closed off for them and they motored on by, some flying the Stars and Stripes and the black MIA-POW flag, honking, revving their engines, an endless celebration of internal combustion.
A patriotic bike rally is sort of like a patriotic toilet-papering or patriotic graffiti—the patriotism somehow gets lost in the sheer irritation of the thing. Somehow a person associates Memorial Day with long moments of silence when you summon up mental images of men huddled together on amphibious assault vehicles and pilots revving up B-24s and infantrymen crouched behind piles of rubble steeling themselves for the next push.
You don't quite see the connection between that and these fat men with ponytails on Harleys. After hearing a few thousand bikes go by, you think maybe we could airlift these gentlemen to Baghdad to show their support of the troops in a more tangible way. It took 20 minutes until a gap appeared and then a mob of us pedestrians flooded across the street and the parade of bikes had to stop for us, and on we went to show our patriotism by looking at exhibits at the Smithsonian or, in my case, hiking around the National Gallery, which, after you've watched a few thousand Harleys pass, seems like an outpost of civilization.
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Thank you Balls. I would add that about 90% of the people riding loud dirty motorcycles have no business trying to represent my idea of a patriotic American Veteran. I also think people like Garrison Keillor should shut up and crawl back into whatever hole they escaped from.
Garrison, get a life!
The truth about Garrison is finally peeking through. He is merely showing the disgusting underbelly of contempt that the Liberal/Marxist elites have for people who make America free and prosperous.
That’s really sad you feel that way because if you were involved in an accident most of them would probably care and stop to help you.
Is that the sound of one hand clapping? I think i’ve finally read it, even if I cannot hear it, one’s intentions are perfectly clear.
Good to see there is at least one Garry supporter here, I’d hate to think my tax money was going to pay the salary of a low man’s household, quite the comfort to know that even in America, there still can be one unmitigated *sshole with a keyboard and a taste for shrivel testicaled public servants.
Then you’ll have to excuse this asshole...I have to get on my bike, ride 75 miles, and line up with dozens of other assholes to honor Lt Col William Gregory Hall, who was killed in Iraq.
This is so true to bad balls doesn't get it.
wow - I’m surprised someone like you can even lift a brush that broad, much less paint with it. Shame you have no eye for things either.
this man is such a waste.. on one hand I’ve enjoyed Prairied Home Companion as well as his books of that genre.. on the other hand, he’s a liberal jerk.. so much talent, yet so completely wrong.
Garrison is a real homo who immediately feels anger and shame when the sight of real men force him to admit his shortcomings. He tricks himself into believing that his cloths and bicycle make him better than leather wearing bikers. He could only wish that he was half the man of every single one of those bikers,even the females.
Wow, you must be one of the peace loving lefties we hear so much about.
Being glad when somebody dies is a low down thing, and you sound like a lowlife.
Go back to the DUM, and leave us alone.
With all due respect to you and your going to honor one of the fallen, I do not understand why bikers so frequently turn solemn occassions, such as Memorial Day, into parades that shift the focus to themselves and their bikes. I believe it’s actually quite disrespectful.
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You’re cruel, but that was soooooooooo funny!
Who said I feel glad when somebody dies? It’s more like, “oh pity, but that’s one less etc ...”
I see splitting hairs is another thing you enjoy doing.
Either way, you are still a very small person.
Nothing wrong with Heillor, that a severe ass kicking wouldn’t improve..
He’s not nearly as “cute” or “intelligent” as he imagines himself to be...
“I joined this thread expecting to unload my pent-up dislike of this Keillor guy, but find myself cheering him on. I can’t abide bikers. They look like a bunch of over-the-hill sissies in their ponytails as they travel around in flocks intimidating queit, peaceful neighborhoods. Whenever
I see one of these bikers splattered over the road after an accident, the only thought I have is that that’s one less asshole we will have to deal with.”
If you and Keillor had been there at the Pentagon staging area, you would have seen that it was no party place. You both need to open your eyes before you open your mouths. My son defended your right to be both ignorant and obnoxious, as I will do. Don’t ask a lot more of me at the moment.
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