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Sometime on Sun/Monday there was a break in and a bike of mine got swiped. After doing the police report, I thought "I'll get over to the local schools and see if my bike is in the rack."
At the high school - 3 bikes, one with disk brakes (better than mine) At the grade schools - not a single bike rack, let alone bikes.
Remind me how this transportation/energy thing will all work out fine?
I'm not registered as a Republican, so I'm safe.
Thnking about getting the dog to put in papers to run for office as a Republican however. She likes pork and has been known to lick boys.
Rather in the last week or two, there have been 3 seperate gunman attacks on schools through out the US, and security has been stepped up in a number districts to be watchful of strange people hanging around schools.
At one time I saw a bloody body in a fed building, men in body armor and guns standing all about, film crews for the local TV channels were there, yet not a peep from the media. So I'm a little more willing to believe the position of attackes not reported, based on my own lying eyes.
Pheeeer of the Eeeeevil gunman and me being a threat implys the use of obeservation of the outside of the school AND people who cared enough to to be doing a job to call in my walking about on land my tax dollars pay for. Rather over the top if one feels one has to call in someone walking around the back of a school or driving about a school.
I just would have wipped out the incident report number, explained why I was there, then bitched aobut the lack of bicycle racks.
Has the hyprocracy of Mr. Foley hit a nerve with you? Did you believe he cared? Did you believe that he had the interest of childern at heart when he was drafting laws to 'protect the childern'?
Pehaps you thought when Mr. Foley said "it's vile" you felt the older man in power - younger woman dynamic was vile, not the male-female dynamic.
"It's vile," said Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach. "It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."
http://www.sptimes.com/Worldandnation/91298/Congress_sees_through.html
For you to even CLAIM "ridiculous R-D frame." shows your filter on the world needs adjusting. If I thought spending any more time on you would adjust your filter, I would bother.
BTW and for the record I have always supported the Democrats and I don't see that changing.
When Susan Smith confessed to drowning her two children in a South Carolina lake, Congressman Newt Gingrich was quick to blame the Democrats. Campaigning Saturday, November 5, 1994 in his home state of Georgia he said:
"I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three days."
His statement was quickly picked up and repeatedly replayed by the national media. See here and here.
In May, 1955 on Meet the Press host Tim Russert asked Gingrich to defend his statements linking Susan Smiths's actions to the Democrats. Gingrich refused to back down. "Why do we have all these problems we didn't have in 1955?" he asked Russert. Gingrich then went on to blame America's post-1955 social decay on "a long pattern of counterculture belief . . . deep in the Democratic Party" that had "undervalued the family" and "consistently favored alternative life styles."
Full text link is here.
Somehow, the old adage about reaping what you sow keeps coming to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn7qCzV5sNM
Fox labeling Foley a Democrat
It appears briefly at the start of this YouTube video.
Plus, most school zones extend far beyond the range at which even high schoolers can ride to and from the school. Do you want to ride 10 miles or more one way?
I have 2 elem. schools, and a middle and high school within about a mile of my house. Actually the elem. and high school is within a half mile.
About 4 hours ago.
"I wouldn't let my kids do it if I had any. (Not just for traffic -you know how nuts people are these days.)"
They walk to the elementary school. I plan to bike with them to middle school, since the school's on one of my two routes to work. They'll probably bus to high school, though, unless TSHTF. In that case, the city will put in the planned bike path after all, and they can bike to school on that (4 miles each way).
Kids these days.. so tame. Not like in my day./
NAACP members are livid over a Yale Police
e-mail they claim unfairly pegs all black
youths on bicycles in the city as criminals.
The e-mail was sent to the Yale community
by university Police Chief James A.Perrotti
last week after an alleged incident involving
youths on bicycles.....
peace
I'm sure thievery will proliferate if economic times get extremely rough.