De-Motivational Poster for the Ages

This will probably turn the tide...

Utah mine collapse causalty report:

6 miners dead.

3 rescuers dead and 6 more injured in secondary collapse

and now a robot camera is trapped.

Oh the humanity, think of all the electrons it could leave behind....

Now that's a tire

Big Dog with a 330 rear.

Mississippi History Lesson.

Went out this weekend a couple times with some of the guys I ride with. We rode a route I developed by putting several of the usual rides together and adding a significant jaunt in to the back woods of Mississippi to round it out. Here is a link to the entire route map. It came out to right at 180 miles door to door. Here are a few of the pictures:

First, a pair of pictures of me demonstrating how and how not to cross a creek on a motorcycle:



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Next, after bombing around in the woods, we happened to notice a graveyard off the side of one of the dirt roads. We stopped to check it out today and it was pretty cool. It is the McGehee family graveyard and is on the grounds of their plantation. Said plantation was razed by Union troops in 1863. Here's a short blurb on it.

"Bowling Green Cemetery -Across the road from the ruins of the early Bowling Green Plantation House which was burned in 1864 by the Yankees. This is still in use by the McGehee family. Property of Miss Mary McGehee and Mrs. Elizabeth McGehee Watt."

Lots to read if you Google.

And a link to a neat little history of the 21st Mississippi Infantry (See Edward J. McGehee's stone)

Anyway, the oldest burial date we found was 1820 and the latest was 1993. It is remarkably well kept to a site as old as it is. Here are the pictures.

Night Race at Bristol

BORRRRRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGG!

Man did they screw that track up when they repaved it.

I don't think anyone's hit any else yet in the first 200 laps.

Gonna make Puppy a STAR!!!!!!!

Test video for You-Tube.

Lunch Manchac

Frog legs.

New route for Saturday.

A bit of dirt on this round trip.

Link to map.

Pics from today's ride

New Ride. maybe tonight

Link

Pictures from the ride.

Not too many as I had the big camera.

526 miles later

And I'm back.

Nice ride so far.

200 miles in and stopping just north of Jackson, MS for gas and breakfast. The parkway is gorgeous. Smooth pavement and little traffic. Might be a good trip for a rental Harley in October.

Going for a little ride tomorrow

So, I have managed to put 9500 miles on the Buell in the last 10 months. (700 since last Monday.) I intend to roll over the fifth digit tomorrow. I'll be heading out from home and running up through Natchez, MS to catch the Southern third (or so) of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Up to Kosciusko, MS and back should give me a nice 500 mile round trip. Here's a map of my intended route. (No highways for me.)

I do wonder if the bridge in New York is named for the same dude. I always heard traffic updates for it when I listened to 880 WCBS.

Sure enough, it is!

Thaddeus Kosciusko (1746-1817)- Polish patriot and soldier

And to top off that little circular history lesson, he served under Nathanael Greene, too.

Ah. The irony of a well publicized disaster...

It always amazes me when there is a mine collapse how the networks spend every second telling you how dangerous mining is and the conditions are terrible and capitalism is evil and blah and blah and blah.

I wonder how many of the rambling morons on the tube realize that they and the rest of their environmentalist ilk might as well be personally murdering these miners?

Because of restrictions on the types of mines that can be built, and the typical NIMBY bullshit, strip mining has all but disappeared. That only leaves subterranean mining to produce the ore that ends up in the talking heads's Bentleys and jewelry.

Anybody ever heard of a strip mine caving in? Not me.

Big open pits for a better tomorrow. That's my new slogan. Or maybe, Save a miner-kill an environmentalist.

Big Burger

Found another Hardee's. This one is in Bogalusa, LA, about 100 miles from the house.

Tore up another rear tire on the Buell so I had to give the new one a good test ride after I changed it.