Hey,
It’s going to be a wild one. I hate to be negative, but some shit scares me. And I know I’m not the brightest star in the sky, but I believe and support some basic elements, like the land of the free and the home of the brave. You’ll see some bad news items below.
I believe there is a way to make freedom shine once more, but it’s going to take a few brave folks to step up.
I watched a portion of a lecture last night by Thom something about his new book, “The Crash of 2016” and how to avoid it. He pointed out some interesting facts, and I would like to read the book and find out more. Seems our economy has been jacked since Reagan and we need to find a way out. Let me know if you read this book and what you think.
It may come around to the old adage: if we give up freedom for safety, we will live very unhappy lives for a longer period of time.
Let’s hit the news. There are a couple of wild games today.
CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY OPEN ON SUNDAY–Question: Why do men find it difficult to make eye contact? Answer: Breasts don’t have eyes.
Question: What are the three biggest tragedies in a man’s life? Answer: Life sucks, job sucks and the wife doesn’t.
Dewey was fixing a door and found that he needed a new hinge, so he sent his wife Bev to Home Depot. At Home Depot, Bev saw a beautiful Bathroom faucet while she was waiting for Walt, the manager, to finish waiting on a customer.
When Walt was finished, Bev asked “How much for that faucet?”
Walt replied, “That’s pewter and it costs $300.”
“My goodness that sure is a lot of money!” Bev exclaimed. Then she proceeded to describe the hinge that Charlie had sent her to buy, and Walt went to the back room to find it.
From the back room Walt yelled, “Bev, you wanna screw for that hinge?”
Bev replied, “No, but I will for the faucet.”
VINTAGE SHOT OF THE DAY–I don’t expect that this police dept. had much trouble with the bad guys…
–Harvey Tow
NEW LEATHER MAKER COMES TO THE CANTINA–Levi I ll give u his contacts.
–Jeremiah
Bikernet’s maintenance manager
THIS JUST IN FROM AUSTRALIA, Clubhouse ‘act of defiance’ say police--Police in the Australian state of Queensland say that while just about every other club has closed its doors and ‘scattered to the winds’, the Lone Wolf MC clubhouse remains in an act of defiance against the Newman Government’s tough anti-biker crackdown.
Police say that they have now vowed to ‘ramp up the pressure’ on the club to close its doors, thus enabling them to make the claim the Gold Coast is a “biker free zone”.
The Currumbin premises has been under constant surveillance and police are determined to shut it down.
The club has refused to remove signage on the premises it has owned outright for more than a decade.
The walls are painted with the club’s insignia, alongside the 1 per cent symbol, and heavily fortified doors remain tightly closed.
Taskforce Takeback boss Superintendent Jim Keogh said the club’s ongoing presence was an “act of defiance”.
But despite leaving signs in place as a reminder, no members have set foot at the club, which is less than 1km from the NSW border.
“Most of their members have a residential address listed in NSW, so logically they’ll just stay well away from the clubhouse,” Supt Keogh said.
It’s being said the Lone Wolf was deliberately trying to outlast the Queensland Government until the laws were tested in the High Court.
The club is also keen to hold the site, which is close to the M1, Gold Coast Highway and has access to the Tomewin back roads.
“A lot of clubs use the Tomewin roads when they want to fly under the radar – the Wolves have been doing it for years,” Supt Keogh said.
The State Government listed the locations of 40 clubhouses, from the Gold Coast to Townsville, banning bikers from attending.
Police say the Bandidos were the first to pull out, stripping two tonnes of steel fortifications from its Mermaid Beach site.
—Undercover Australian Bikernet Correspondent
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HESSIAN MEMBER INJURED– In early November our brother Hessian Sean was involved in a motorcycle collision that left him very tore up, two broken legs, a ripped aorta from his heart and the worst, his eyesight.
There is a very slim chance that he might regain partial eyesight in one eye but at the best it will just be shadows. Sean is in good spirits and has a awesome attitude, but he will need all the help, support and brotherhood love that he can get….
BIKERNET SWAPMEET CORRESPONDENT ON THE CASE– Ran into Jessica & Mike (Monkey) @ the Swapmeet.
Snowing, cold
–Hugs Paul
BIKERNET BAGGERS TO RUN LYNDALL COMPOSITE BRAKES–Monday afternoon Paul will deliver them to Lifestyle Cycles.
We are picking up a Bikernet Baggers ’97 FLT standard on Monday or Tuesday. It will be our test bed for many Bagger techs, starting with Lyndall brakes with centers by Colorado Customs, then a set of True Duals from Samson, followed by a new Phase two headlight, turn signal system from Rivera Primo.
WEEKEND GUN NUT REPORT–Senate Appropriations Committee to Consider Anti-Gun Legislation on Tuesday– Contact Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee
The 2014 legislative session has convened in Sacramento and the anti-gun assault has already begun. It is now time for gun owners and sportsmen to call their state legislators urging them to oppose any and all anti-gun legislation.
Senate Bill 199 and Senate Bill 808 are scheduled to be heard in the state Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday, January 21, at 11:00 a.m. in the John L. Burton hearing room 4203 in the state Capitol.
SB 199 would ban the sale/transfer of used and antique BB devices and imitation firearms that are not colored, as specified.
SB 808 would impose heavy restrictions and costly fees on the ability to make, or even assemble, a personal firearm.
Please call AND e-mail members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and urge them to OPPOSE SB 199 AND SB 808. The contact information for members of this committee is provided below.
Remind members of this committee that both of these anti-gun bills are already covered by federal law. Let them know that these bills are duplicative, unnecessary and a waste of valuable legislative time. California already has enough anti-gun laws that are doing nothing to reduce the violent crime rate and it doesn’t need any more.
Don’t forget to forward this alert to your family, friends, fellow gun owners and sportsmen in California and urge them call AND e-mail members of this committee urging them to OPPOSE SB 199 AND SB 808.
Senate Appropriations Committee:
Senator Kevin de León (D-22) Chairman
Senator.DeLeon@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4022
Fax: 916-651-4922
Senator Mimi Walters (R-37) Vice Chairman
Senator.Walters@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4037
Fax: 916-651-4937
Senator Ted Gaines (R-1)
Senator.Gaines@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4001
Fax: 916-651-4901
Senator Jerry Hill (D-13)
Senator.Hill@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4013
Fax: 916-651-4913
Senator Ricardo Lara (D-33)
Senator.Lara@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4033
Fax: 916-651-4933
Senator Alex Padilla (D-20)
Senator.Padilla@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4020
Fax: 916-651-4920
Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-6)
Senator.Steinberg@sen.ca.gov
Office: 916-651-4006
Fax: 916-651-4906
MASSACHUSETTS Stick shift stalls would-be thieves– A trio of would-be Massachusetts car thieves had to hit the brakes on their plan because none of them knew how to drive a car with manual transmission.
Police in Springfield say the men pulled a knife on a food delivery driver Tuesday night and demanded the grub and his keys. But then they noticed the car had a manual transmission.
Sgt. John Delaney tells The Republican newspaper the thieves argued among themselves then ran down the street with their ill-gotten dinner. The driver was not seriously hurt. There have been no arrests. — Associated Press
–from Rogue
DON’T TEXT AND WATCH A MOVIE–Shooting suspect didn’t learn from cop career.
As a veteran of 25 years in law enforcement, let me say this about the retired police captain accused of fatally shooting a man at a movie theater near Tampa this week: He ought to spend the rest of his life in prison.
If his law enforcement experience didn’t teach him anything better than getting into a fight over something incredibly stupid, he obviously wasn’t paying attention during his career.
–Steven Smith
Indian Harbor Beach
–from Rogue
KEY WEST MAY GET A NUDITY MAKEOVER–Relaxed laws allowing body paint might go too far at Fantasy Fest
KEY WEST — Key West city officials say they’re going to take another look at nudity laws crafted for the annual Fantasy Fest. Some residents say revelers at the weeklong party have exposed a little too much in restaurants and supermarkets. According to one complaint, a man clad only in body paint took a seat at the counter in a Denny’s, angering some diners.
City Commissioner Tony Yaniz said that he’s no prude, but he does think “some of the fantasy has gone out of Fantasy Fest.”
According to city laws dating to 1986, nudity is defined as exposure of male or female genitals and women’s nipples, which must be covered by “fully opaque” material. Some exceptions have been made for body paint and Fantasy Fest.
–Associated Press
SECRET GOVERNMENT MEETING HELD WITH AMA, EPA, HARLEY AND MIC REGARDING ANTI-TAMPERING AND NOISE—The Motorcycle Riders Foundation was not invited. What concerns me most is the fact we weren’t invited nor even knew about it, and yes it again illustrates a real point of difference in our world and one
that if we don’t stand up and protect our turf, we will get out maneuvered and minimized.
To me this can and should be a real rallying cry that I would expect the board weighs in on.
Questions coming in as to why we weren’t there and why didn’t we represent “our” position on this, tough question to answer
We will need to make sure our members know where we stand on this and what
we can and should be doing about it, we did a fantastic job during the “color and chrome” campaign the last time this effort surfaced, hopefully we have another one like it on the bag.
Reminds me of the session at one of the MoTM where they talked about in Europe having break-away bolts so that components couldn’t be
changed by the users.
If you haven’t seen or heard in a several page spread the AMA is featuring and championing sound control, easily interpredted
(actually doesn’t even require interpretation) as an anti tampering
measure/anti customization effort.
Reading through it and knowing the players from past meetings it is a stock sound that is all that will be acceptable and they propose going after the end users with fines
We will bring you more info on this debacle in the very near future. We will never give up.
–from the MRF Board members and Bandit
NTSB Releases “MOST WANTED” Safety List for 2014–
Nice of them to bury motorcycle helmets in with occupant protection. In reading through it seems almost like we are an afterthought.
–Dave Dwyer
SSMRO Rep
MRF BOD
So over half the time, helmets are proven to NOT BE EFFECTIVE. Great use of our federal dollars, a campaign on this…not.
* U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)-compliant motorcycle helmets are?estimated to be 37-percent effective in preventing fatal injuries to?motorcycle riders and 41 percent for motorcycle passengers.
HELMETS back on the list, we’ll need a response and statement, members ?already asking:
January 16, 2014 The National Transportation Safety Board has just released its 2014 Most Wanted List, the top 10 advocacy and awareness priorities for the agency for the year. “The traveling public relies on a safe and efficient transportation system. Yet, every year, we see over 35,000 fatalities,” said NTSB Chairman Deborah?A.P. Hersman. “That’s why we have the Most Wanted List: Steps we can take?today, so that more people make it home tonight.”
Occupant protection is new for 2014. While preventing accidents is always the goal, saving lives and reducing injuries in the event of an accident is also critical, says the board. Increasing the use of available occupant protection systems and improving crashworthiness to preserve survivable space can mean the difference between life and death.
ATA President and CEO Bill Graves said, We appreciate NTSB’s persistence in addressing critical safety issues, especially those that affect the trucking industry’s workplace, our highways.
NTSB’s Most Wanted List is an important record of needed safety improvements, said ATA, and this year includes three items of particular interest to the trucking industry: eliminating distraction, addressing substance-impaired driving and improving occupant protection and crashworthiness of vehicles.
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BRAND New Bikernet Reader Comment!–
Tail Gunner Wide Open Windshield and Stereo Install
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=10555
Bought a Wide Open Custom fairing in 2010, installed 2011. In 2013 noticed bad vibration. Found 2 large cracks around the mounting brackets, several around the stereo. Poses a real safety issue in my opinion. Scale of 1-10 with 10 the best, I would give it a -1.
— Ed Tuel
tuel82@yahoo.com
Ames, IA
MEDICAL MARIJUANA SUPPORTERS CLAIM VICTORY–Group says it reaches petition signature goal.
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE — Backers of a medical marijuana constitutional amendment in Florida announced Wednesday evening that they have collected enough signatures to make the 2014 ballot.
Ben Pollara, the campaign manager for United for Care, sent out an email to supporters that organizers have collected more than 1.1 million signatures.
“This is an enormous achievement,” Pollara wrote. Organizers have until Feb. 1 to gather 683,189 voter signatures. So far, election supervisors have certified nearly 458,000 signatures.
Groups pushing a constitutional amendment typically gather more signatures than needed in case some are rejected.
–from Rogue
BIKERNET CORRESPONDENT TRAPPED AT CHICAGOLAND SWAP MEET—Surrounded by harsh unrelenting characters. “I should be smiling,” Paul said.
QUICK, New Bikernet Reader Comment!– Lucky Devil Party Girls
http://www.bikernet.com/pages/story_detail.aspx?id=960
Do You Have Supporter Patches?
–Peter
Ischy@web.de
Kleve, Northrine Westfalia, Germany
Hehehe, Interesting. . . well, no we don’t and I never thought about support patches, though we did do some support your local Lucky Devil stickers once, for a chop off event several years ago. They are long gone.
Considering that I am not a club or AMA member and Lucky Devil Metal Works Inc. has nothing to do with any M/C or special event like that in the future we didn’t plan on making more.
Though as soon as we can get the re-modeling done around here we have been talking about doing some round Lucky Clover logo stickers, so we’ll send a stack to Bikernet for member giveaways.
I am seriously and deeply honored that you’d like to have one!
–Kent Weeks
The Luckiest Devil
Attached is the flyer and info for the Hamster Winternationals & Donnie Smith Bike Show in March.
Please book your rooms by the deadline, first come first served. There are a few big events in town that weekend, so rooms will be difficult to find in St Paul, if you don’t get them early.
Be sure to fill our form and include check (make checks out to Donnie Smith) but mail them to me.
Info is on the form. Again, we need head counts by the deadline, as we have caterers and others that need our numbers in advance.
We’re looking forward to seeing everyone that can make it! We always have a great time.
If you need transportation to and from the airport, you can catch a cab from the airport or make arrangements in advance with Robbie Paster (he has a limo service) 612-296-6620 is his business number.
–Patty
He was concerned to see so litigious a temper in men.
Canada, in so many ways, seemed superior to America anyway. Canada was saner, more tolerant, friendlier, safer, less litigious.
Litigious is derived from the Latin word litigi meaning “a quarrel.”
CONNECTICUT Accused puppy liberator charged — Police say a 23-year-old Connecticut woman spotted by an officer using a rock to try to smash open the front door of a closed pet store said she “wanted to set the puppies free.”
The Hour newspaper reports that the officer heard a banging sound while on patrol at a Norwalk strip mall early Wednesday. He spotted a woman running away from the Puppies of Westport store but caught up with her.
Police say when asked what she was doing, the woman said she “wanted to set the puppies free.” Anouk Govil is charged with criminal mischief. She’s posted $500 bond.
— Associated Press
–from Rogue
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The ultimate consequence of misology is a kind of self-destruction in which what is destroyed is that aspect of the self represented by active reason.
In this way misology, the hatred of reason, arises. Socrates now confronts misology “because there’s no greater evil that could befall anyone” (89d2-3).
Misology comes from the German word Misologie, coined by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 1780s from the Greek word meaning “hating argument.” It entered English in the 1820s.
HIGH COURT COULD CONSIDER POLICE CELLPHONE SEARCHES–Decision whether to hear appeals could come as early as today
By Mark Sherman Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court decided 40 years ago that police don’t need a search warrant to look through anything a person is carrying when arrested. But that was long before smartphones gave people the ability to take with them the equivalent of millions of pages of documents or thousands of photographs.
In a new clash over technology and privacy, the court is being asked to resolve divisions among federal and state courts over whether the old rules should still apply in the digital age.
Fourth Amendment requires warrant
In one of two cases before the justices, the federal appeals court in Boston threw out evidence police found when they conducted a limited search of a suspected drug dealer’s cellphone after his arrest. Judge Norman Stahl of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said warrantless cellphone searches create a serious threat to the privacy even of people who have been properly arrested.
“Today, many Americans store their most personal ‘papers’ and ‘effects’ in electronic format, on a cellphone, carried on the person,” Stahl said.
But in the early 1970s, the Supreme Court carved out exceptions for officers dealing with people they have arrested. The court was trying to set clear rules that allowed police to look for concealed weapons and prevent the destruction of evidence. Briefcases, wallets, purses and crumpled cigarette packs all are fair game if they are carried by a suspect or within the person’s immediate control.
Courts split on cellphones
There is growing division in state and federal courts over whether cellphones deserve special protection. At least six courts have allowed warrantless searches, and at least three have not, said Stanford University’s Jeffrey Fisher, representing a California defendant whose case is the other being considered by the Supreme Court.
The California case may attract the court’s attention because it involves a more extensive search of a smartphone.
Things quickly went from bad to worse for Fisher’s client, David Leon Riley, when a San Diego police officer pulled over Riley’s Lexus for having an expired registration. In quick succession, police learned Riley’s license was suspended, decided to impound the car and found loaded guns under its hood. Riley was arrested.
An officer looking at Riley’s Samsung smartphone saw that some words normally beginning with the letter K were preceded by the letter C. Police say the notation CK signifies “Crip Killers,” a slang term for members of a gang known as the “Bloods.” Hours later, a detective re-examined the phone, finding videos and pictures providing more evidence of Riley’s gang affiliation, including one showing he may have been involved in a gangrelated shooting.
Indicted for attempted murder and other charges, Riley was convicted and sentenced to a term of 15 years to life in prison. At no time did police seek a warrant to search his smartphone. In the Boston case, Brima Wurie emptied a set of keys, $1,275 in cash and two cellphones from his pockets when he arrived at a Boston police station for processing in September 2007 after his arrest on suspicion of selling crack cocaine.
Police eventually examined the call log on his flip phone and determined where he lived. When they searched his home, armed with a warrant, they found crack, marijuana, a gun and ammunition. The evidence was enough to land him more than 20 years in prison.
–from Rogue
HAMSTERS RAISE FUNDS FOR NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY– Sorry for the delay as I was waiting for one final check before I got final amount. I am happy to have donated $5,100 toward the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Thanks to all you Yellows and your generous friends we have been able to make a great donation! The donation was made to the local New England Chapter. Below is a little description of where the money goes. It also helps local families who can’t afford to do things like add wheel chair ramp or make a bathroom more “user” friendly.
Your donation supports critical funds to support cutting-edge research and programs and services for everyone impacted by MS. Ending MS means no one will receive an MS diagnosis again. Every step matters. Every dollar counts. Every person makes a difference.
Once again Thank you for coming out and support our event! We hope to see you at the Fall Foliage Run 2014
~Dave & Jody
Jody Perewitz
Perewitz Cycle Fab
(508)697-3595
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CANTINA REVIVAL MEETING TODAY–Bubba goes to the revival and listens to the preacher. After a while, the preacher asks anyone with needs to come forward and be prayed over.
Bubba gets in line. When it’s his turn the preacher says, ‘Bubba, what you want me to pray about?’
Bubba says, ‘Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing.’
So the preacher puts one finger in Bubba’s ear and the other hand on top of his head and prays a while.
After a few minutes, he removes his hands and says,’ Bubba, how’s your hearing now?
‘Bubba responds: ‘Don’t know. It ain’t ’till next Wednesday!’
NEVER GIVE UP—We will never give up on Freedom. It’s the Code of the West. Speaking of good times, we held a 5-Ball Racing apparel shoot at the Bikernet headquarters on Friday. What a blast with the famous Easyriders photographer Markus Cuff on hand taking the shots of Stormie and Coral. Coral as a blonde, is a spitting image of our Cantina babe, Coral.
Jeremiah and James blasted around the block sans helmets, and of course got jacked. I find it incredible that restriction surpasses freedom. Cops should actually approach riders with apologies, like, “Man, I’m sorry to bother you, but they threaten our jobs if we don’t pull you over. We want you to ride as free as the wind, but you know the drill.”
Instead they pull you over and say, “Wear a helmet or die.” What the fuck?
The brothers are wearing our 5-Ball Racing leather attire, which will be released in Cincinnati at the V-Twin show.
I swear I’ll launch the Rivera HedLED tech tomorrow, and we are working on the first 650 ATK story. So much more is coming, but let’s relax and enjoy the games.
Ride Forever,
–Bandit
