It’s the original biker campout from Easyriders Magazine! Come enjoy a weekend of camping, live entertainment, awesome vendors, food & beer and your classic motorcycle rally games in Bloomsburg, PA this weekend, June 7-9. Be a part of the fun – you don’t have to be a pro. Sign-up onsite to participate in our rodeo favorites from the wienie bit to the sled pulls and compete for cash and bragging rights! The first rodeo event is FREE with your weekend wristband! It’s sure to be the highlight of the summer! 18+ only. All tickets are sold at the gate.

Come join us for Bill’s 80th birthday bash and ride starting at Bill’s Old Bike Barn with procession to the Easyriders Rodeo in Bloomsburg, PA Saturday June 8. You can purchase tickets at Bill’s Old Bike Barn Saturday from 9am to11am. Tickets are limited. Starts at 9am. Ride to the Easyriders Rodeo leaves at 12:30pm. The cost is $40 per person which gets you into Bill’s 80th Birthday Bash, Entry into Bill’s Bike Museum. Bill’s Old Bike Barn is a true collection of vintage motorcycles and Americana memorabilia that you just have to see for yourself! Rhett Rotten Wall of Death, A Saturday midway pass into the Easyriders Rodeo and all the events which include: barstool races, rodeo competition, vendors, ride in bike show, food and beer, wet t-shirt contest, cornhole competition, poker crawl, kick start contest, live music by Saliva, Starve The Beast, The Bayou City Outlaw Band and South of Southern. Fire, dance and aerial performances by the Purrfect Angelz, freestyle rollers demonstrations, an Easyriders Rodeo commemorative run pin, and more!! Or come camp out for the weekend, we have lots more going on!

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After state lawmakers boosted the gas tax with a promise to improve California streets, some cities are upsetting drivers by spending millions on so-called ‘road diet’ projects that reduce the number of lanes for motor vehicles.

STEVEN GREENHUT

At a 2017 Riverside rally touting legislation to increase gas taxes and vehicle-license fees to boost California’s infrastructure spending, then-Gov. Jerry Brown was characteristically grandiose.

“Roads are the fundamentals of a civilization,” he said. “Whether it was the Roman Empire or the United States of America, roads are the key to a nation’s greatness.”

As someone who once spent hours driving 50 miles on a decrepit and insanely crowded third-world country’s “highways,” I can attest to the societal importance of a modern, well-maintained freeway system. But the latest news about that gas-tax hike—and the way some cities are using the cash—speaks volumes about our civilization, too. It’s great fodder for an author who wants to chronicle the decline and fall of it.

Senate Bill 1‘s supporters made clear the $5.4 billion a year in additional infrastructure spending would reduce congestion and make getting around much easier. Any normal person would think that meant building new street and highway lanes. This isn’t high-level math: Congestion is caused by too little road space for too many cars, so adding space is the key.

Normal people apparently don’t make transportation decisions. “Two years after state lawmakers boosted the gas tax with a promise to improve California streets, some cities have raised the ire of drivers by spending millions of the new dollars on ‘road diet’ projects that reduce the number and size of lanes for motor vehicles,” according to a Los Angeles Times report.

In November, a majority of California voters opposed a repeal of those gas-tax hikes. People no doubt reasoned that even if they don’t like paying so much extra at the pump, they at least will see tangible improvements in their commutes. In fairness, the tax hike has funded many construction and maintenance projects, but it’s also funded these projects that seem designed to make our awful commutes even worse. It makes no sense.

S.B. 1 is a “landmark transportation investment to rebuild California by fixing neighborhood streets, freeways and bridges in communities across California and targeting funds toward transit and congested trade and commute corridor improvements,” according to the state of California website. That’s a fair description of how its backers described the controversial plan to skeptical taxpayers.

When did anyone ever say anything about “road diets”?

Actually, the law’s fine print promised to add bike lanes and improve road safety. Not many people figured that California cities would do this by building wider, protected bicycle routes and removing the number of traffic lanes in the process. In the city of Sacramento, near where I live, officials have used this strategy. It has turned downtown thoroughfares from a crowded rush-hour mess into total, gridlocked chaos. As humorist Dave Barry would say, “I am not making this up.”

The city realized “the primary collision factor on the streets was unsafe speeds,” Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in that news report. “And one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to reduce the speeds is to reduce the number of travel lanes.” The report pointed to a federal study showing that road diets significantly reduce the number of car accidents.  Well, sure—it’s harder to get in an accident when you’re not moving or crawling along. The next time you’re in gridlock, remember that officials did this to make you safer. Gee, thanks a lot.

This is planned congestion—an extreme case of social engineering trumping traffic engineering. These officials, who want us to sit in traffic longer as a means to avoid accidents or frustrate us into taking the bus or rail, are using the recent tax boost to achieve these goals. Californians have been had, although many of us had issued warnings.

Officials actually admit that they do this. It was obvious, though, given increases in traffic and all those new, obtrusive bicycle lanes surrounded by pylons and delineated by white, painted warning figures and lines on the asphalt. These projects also are designed to promote “equity” by “giving people safe alternatives to cars,” as one supporter told the Times. Bicycling is a fine-enough pastime and a reasonable way to get around in cities, but replacing traffic lanes with bike lanes will only make the traffic worse.

When San Jose opened a light-rail station many years ago, transportation officials reportedly considered closing a nearby highway lane to encourage people to take rail. These road-diets are even loopier. We’ve placed transportation planning in the hands of the Congestion Lobby – officials who are so hostile to car usage that they’ll go to great lengths to coerce us to ride bikes or take their slow, dirty and generally unpleasant transit systems.

Jerry Brown had it right. Roads are indeed a key to a society’s greatness. But I’d add that any civilization that raises gas taxes and then reduces road lanes to purposefully increase traffic congestion is insane and probably living on borrowed time.

This column was first published by the Orange County Register.

Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. Write to him at sgreenhut@rstreet.org.

POSTED BY: JON SCHUPPE

William Montanez is used to getting stopped by the police in Tampa, Florida, for small-time traffic and marijuana violations; it’s happened more than a dozen times. When they pulled him over last June, he didn’t try to hide his pot, telling officers, “Yeah, I smoke it, there’s a joint in the center console, you gonna arrest me for that?”

They did arrest him, not only for the marijuana but also for two small bottles they believed contained THC oil — a felony — and for having a firearm while committing that felony (they found a handgun in the glove box).

Then things got testy.

As they confiscated his two iPhones, a text message popped up on the locked screen of one of them: “OMG, did they find it?”

The officers demanded his passcodes, warning him they’d get warrants to search the cellphones. Montanez suspected that police were trying to fish for evidence of illegal activity. He also didn’t want them seeing more personal things, including intimate pictures of his girlfriend.

So he refused, and was locked up on the drug and firearms charges.

Five days later, after Montanez was bailed out of jail, a deputy from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office tracked him down, handed him the warrants and demanded the phone passcodes. Again, Montanez refused. Prosecutors went to a judge, who ordered him locked up again for contempt of court.

“I felt like they were violating me. They can’t do that,” Montanez, 25, recalled recently. “F— y’all. I ain’t done nothing wrong. They wanted to get in the phone for what?”

He paid a steep price, spending 44 days behind bars before the THC and gun charges were dropped, the contempt order got tossed and he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor pot charge. And yet he regrets nothing, because he now sees his defiance as taking a stand against the abuse of his rights.

“The world should know that what they’re doing out here is crazy,” Montanez said. The police never got into his phones.

While few would choose jail, Montanez’s decision reflects a growing resistance to law enforcement’s power to peer into Americans’ digital lives. The main portals into that activity are cellphones, which are protected from prying eyes by encryption, with passcodes the only way in.

As police now routinely seek access to people’s cellphones, privacy advocates see a dangerous erosion of Americans’ rights, with courts scrambling to keep up.

“It’s becoming harder to escape the reach of police using technology that didn’t exist before,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, the associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. “And now we are in the position of trying to walk that back and stem the tide.”

–from Technocracy News

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I’ll keep fighting for freedom and questioning authority until the end. I guess it’s my nature as just another grubby biker who loves to ride free.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday released a correspondence file containing the results of tests it performed on a tissue sample alleged to be from Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch — a purported human-like creature that was sporadically reported to be roaming the wilderness in the Pacific Northwest.

The 22-page file, made public following a Freedom of Information Act request, showed that the FBI agreed to test a hair sample “attached to a tiny piece of skin” obtained and submitted by the Oregon-based Bigfoot Information Center.

The letters show the group sent the sample after a 1975 report in the “Washington Environmental Atlas” referred to tests by the FBI Laboratory “in connection with the Bigfoot phenomenon.”
The FBI kept a Bigfoot file, which was released Wednesday. (Yahoo News photo Illustration; photos: AP, Getty Images)

“Will you kindly, to set the record straight, once and for all, inform us if the FBI has examined hair which might be that of a Bigfoot; when this took place; if it did take place; what the results of the analysis were,” Peter Byrne, director of the Bigfoot Information Center, wrote in a letter to the bureau. “Please understand that our research here is serious.”

The FBI said it had no record of conducting such tests.

But in a subsequent letter addressed to Byrne, dated Dec. 15. 1976, Jay Cochran Jr., assistant director of the FBI’s Scientific and Technical Services division, told him to send the sample to the FBI Laboratory in Washington.

“The FBI Laboratory conducts examinations primarily of physical evidence for law enforcement agencies in connection with criminal investigations,” Cochran wrote. “Occasionally, on a case-by-case basis, in the interest of research and scientific inquiry, we make exceptions to this general policy. With this understanding, we will examine the hairs and tissue mentioned in your letter.”

Three months later, the FBI reported the results of its tests.

“The hairs are of deer family origin,” Cochran wrote.

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A PITCH FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A GROWING POPULATION—I wake up with the craziest thoughts. I watched Chris Kristofferson’s documentary about the Past and the Future and of course Climate Change and Man. His experts contend that fossil fuels will be around for a long time. But he asks that we try to do something to help. That was the confusing part. Did he mean drive one less car or buy one less motorcycle?

I had a friend in Australia who thought he had a formula to take old tires and anything plastic and turn it into pure diesel fuel. Imagine if that worked. It would change the trash landscape of the world.

Okay, so the Climate has been changing forever. Really, forever. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for climate change. So, ponder this for a minute. The climate is changing, and we have eliminated fossil fuels. Suddenly, the electrical grids are down, and we can’t get supplies to people who need them. We can’t leave our city because of an earthquake, because we can’t drive or ride our motorcycles.

Fossil fuels and the oil industry support everything from your freedom to ride and travel to medical supplies. We should be damn proud of the industry and hammer the government about an improved infrastructure for a growing population.

Let’s hit the news.

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As others in the motorcycle safety and rights organizations are finding out about us it is good to see their names on the membership list. And we thank them for letting others know about us.

Those of us working hard to make Biker Lives Matter welcome all who have joined, you are the backbone of what we are working for and we appreciate the confidence you have placed in us. Please continue to invite others you know.

We are still in the early stages of making Biker Lives Matter a name in the world of motorcycling and as we work with other more established organizations, we will continue to support them and feel we will be able to help with some of the things they have been working on as we move forward.

Something us old gear heads say all the time, we aren’t trying to re-invent the wheel just want to rub on it and make it a little better, that is what our goals are here.
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NEWS FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT--10 Of 10 Coastal Antarctic Stations Show Zero Warming Over Past Decades.

Failed Scientists Need To Resign

By Kirye
and Pierre Gosselin

Update: Another coastal station has been added: Novolazarevsk, so it’s 11 stations.

Over the past few years, climate alarmists have increasingly been resorting to weather-ambulance chasing, which has necessitated the trotting of the globe in the search of weather anomalies to behold as proof of man-made climate change.

But one place they have been avoiding like the plague is Antarctica as a number of studies have been showing the opposite of what was predicted earlier has been happening down at the South Pole, except for volcanic activity beneath parts of the Antarctic ice shelf.

Analysis of Antarctic stations show cooling

Today we look at 10 Antarctic stations under operation in Antarctica, scattered along the Antarctic coastline and operated by various countries. These are not impacted by volcanic activity:

With the 2018 data in, now is a good time to look at the long-term temperature trends of these stations. We do know that Antarctic sea ice extent has seen an impressive upward trend over the past 40 years, and so tells us cooling may be at play:

Antarctic sea ice has gained steadily over the past 40 years. Chart: Comiso et al, 2017

What follows are annual mean temperature charts of each of the 10 Antarctic stations unimpacted by volcanic activity.
Butler Island and Neumayer

Both show a clear downward trend:

Halley

Halley as well shows a downward station since 1956:

Syowa and Casey

Data from the Japan operated Syowa station and the Australia Casey stations both show no trend since 1961. Here we see no signs of any warming:

So far not a single station remote of volcanic activity has shown any warming.
Davis

The Davis station data go back 35 years and show a flat trend (very slight cooling in fact). No warming has been detected there since the great global warming scare began in the 1980s. So far 6 of the 6 stations plotted show no warming over the last several decades.

Zhongshan

This Antarctic station shows a definite cooling trend over the past 30 years:

Mirnyl

The Mirnyl station has been recording temperature data since 1967, i.e. more than half a century. It too is statistically flat, even showing a very slight cooling trend:

Dumont D’Urvi and Mawson

Both D’Urvi and Mawson Antarctic stations have recorded data going back to the 1950s. As the following chart tells us, there’s been no warming at these two long term stations as well.

Novolazarevsk

None show warming

In summary, not single Antarctic coastal station shows warming, with most showing cooling. Now you know why the climate change ambulance chasers have been silent about this remote, vastly undisturbed continent.
South Shetland Islands

Next we look at the annual temperatures of the 5 stations of the South Shetland Islands (located in the Antarctic Ocean).

They too show no warming since 1993. Centro http://Met.An , Marsh has had no warming trend since 1977. Where’s the warming? There certainly isn’t any at the South Pole.

Antarctic seas cooling, new study shows

Finally a fresh comprehensive study by Zhous et al also tells us that summertime sea surface temperatures (SSTs) all around Antarctic coast have been COOLING.

This is really inconvenient news for the global warming alarmists. Just when they predicted the South Pole would warm and start a dramatic melting, the opposite has in fact happened.

Grand failure as grounds for dismissal

It’s time to dismiss these alarmists as complete failures. They should be fired permanently, and never be allowed to practice science again. Their failed predictions have led the global community on a wild policy goose chase that has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and set back progress in the developing countries by many years.

I didn’t code all the charts, but you can check them on Climate Depot.–Bandit

 

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BIKERNET GUN NUT REPORT–Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling May Spell Trouble for Pittsburgh Gun Control Laws

BY DAN ZIMMERMAN

The Pennsylvania supreme court handed down an important decision on Friday in the case of Commonwealth v. Hicks. The court ruled that the mere possession of a firearm — carried either openly or concealed — does not constitute reasonable suspicion of a crime. That’s something that should go without saying, but that’s not the world in which we live.

The ruling invalidated justifications police departments were using for “stop-and-frisk” checks of individuals based solely on the fact that they were in possession of a firearm.

The court wrote:

Although the carrying of a concealed firearm is unlawful for a person statutorily prohibited from firearm ownership or for a person not licensed to do so, see 18 Pa.C.S. §§ 6105-06, there is no way to ascertain an individual’s licensing status, or status as a prohibited person, merely by his outward appearance.

As a matter of law and common sense, a police officer observing an unknown individual can no more identify whether that individual has a license in his wallet than discern whether he is a criminal.

Unless a police officer has prior knowledge that a specific individual is not permitted to carry a concealed firearm, and absent articulable facts supporting reasonable suspicion that a firearm is being used or intended to be used in a criminal manner, there simply is no justification for the conclusion that the mere possession of a firearm, where it lawfully may be carried, is alone suggestive of criminal activity.

The Firearms Policy Coalition, which wrote an amicus brief in the case, issued this press release . . .

HARRISBURG, PA (May 31, 2019) — Today, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court issued a significant 53-page majority opinion in the criminal appeal of Commonwealth v. Hicks. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) filed an important coalition amicus brief cited by the Court supporting Hicks in December of 2017, alongside Firearms Owners Against Crime (FOAC) and seven Members of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly. The Court’s decision, concurring opinions, and the FPC/FPF amicus brief can be viewed at www.firearmspolicy.org/legal.

At issue was whether someone’s carrying of a firearm could be used as reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct, and thus justification for police to conduct a “stop-and-frisk” of the gun owner. The court ruled in Hicks that such searches and seizures, in the absence of other evidence are completely unlawful.

The coalition’s brief, which was relied on heavily in the majority opinion, argued that the Pennsylvania and federal constitutions prohibit searches and seizures based on a suspicion of criminal activity due to carrying a firearm.

According to the brief, “As protected by the Second and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution and the Pennsylvania Constitution . . . the mere open or conceal carrying of a firearm cannot establish reasonable articulable suspicion of criminal conduct, in the absence of additional indicia of unlawful activity.”

The Court agreed, noting “that the government may not target and seize specific individuals without any particular suspicion of wrongdoing, then force them to prove that they are not committing crimes.”

“Hicks’ position is supported by several amici curiae, including Members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Firearms Owners Against Crime, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and the Firearms Policy Foundation.

Hicks’ amici argue that the Robinson rule is contrary to this Court’s precedent and to the general teachings of the Supreme Court of the United States’ Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Amici further point to numerous decisions of the courts of other states and federal appellate courts that have addressed the specific question at issue here, and which have held that mere possession of a concealed firearm provides no basis for an investigative detention,” Supreme Court Justice Wecht wrote for the majority.

FPC President and FPF Chairman Brandon Combs hailed the decision. “Stop-and-frisk practices that harass gun owners who carry for lawful purposes including self-defense, like the one at the core of this case, are unconstitutional, bad public policy, and dangerous,” explained Combs. “We are thrilled that the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania agreed with these fundamental principles and issued such an incredibly positive decision in favor of constitutional rights.”

Kim Stolfer, president of FOAC, was also delighted with the ruling. “We are thrilled to have participated in this case. The Commonwealth’s position, that the ‘mere sight’ of a firearm, with no criminal act, ‘justifies’ arrest and detention at gunpoint, is constitutionally repugnant and unjustified. Today the Court rightly held as much.”

Joshua Prince, author of the coalition’s brief, said that “the Court, in dismissing the Commonwealth’s position, declared that to permit investigative detention solely to determine whether someone is properly licensed is ‘ultimately untenable, because it would allow a manifestly unacceptable range of ordinary activity to, by itself, justify Terry stops.’”

“This ruling rightly puts an end to abusive, non-justifiable searches of law-abiding gun owners, and it should be relished by all those who support the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution,” Prince concluded.

But there’s more to the ruling than the Fourth Amendment implications of the ruling.

This ruling is especially significant in light of the Pittsburgh ordinances — the mayor et al. acknowledge that Pennsylvania state law prohibits their activities, but they are pushing anyway on the hope that the state Supreme Court will overrule the state law precluding cities from passing such ordinances.

That would be a real shame.

–Truth About Guns

BIKERNET UNIVERSITY ENGLISH DEPARTMENT VOCABULARY LESSON–
fecund

[fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd]
adjective
1.
very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.

QUOTES

… he possesses a fecund imagination able to spin out one successful series after another ….

— John Koblin, “As the Streaming Wars Heat Up, Ryan Murphy Cashes In,” New York Times, February 14, 2018

ORIGIN

The English adjective fecund ultimately comes from Latin fecundus “fertile, productive,” used of humans, animals, and plants. The first syllable fe- is a Latin development of the Proto-Indo-European root dhe(i)- “to suck, suckle.” From fe- Latin forms the derivatives felix “fruitful, productive, fortunate, blessed, lucky” (source of the English name Felix and felicity), femina “woman” (originally a feminine participle meaning “suckling”), fetus “parturition, birth, conception, begetting, young (plant or animal), child,” and filius and filia “son” and “daughter,” respectively (and source of filial). Dhe(i)- appears in Greek as the(i)-, as in thêsthai “to suckle” and thel? “nipple, teat” (an element of the uncommon English noun thelitis “inflammation of the nipple”).

Fecund entered English in the 15th century.

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AUSTRALIAN CLUB NEWS– MC club leader says police are also a criminal gang
Tuesday, 04 June 2019

The Australian national president of the Bandidos motorcycle club has told a Sydney court that if he is banned from having a firearm because some of his members are criminals, so should the NSW police as some of their members have been convicted of crimes.

In 2018 Jason Addison was banned by the NSW state Police from acquiring, possessing or using a firearm on the grounds that it was not in the public interest because of his presidency of the Bandidos and his criminal record for drug offences.

Mr Addison, a stonemason from Echuca in Victoria, appealed the prohibition order arguing that neither his membership of the motorcycle club nor his criminal record – which he said did not relate to firearm offences – was reason to prevent him from having a firearm.

Last week the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT), upheld the prohibition order. “We are satisfied that as National President of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle club, Mr Addison is not fit, in the public interest, to have possession of a firearm.”

Mr Addison’s lawyers argued that he was not applying for a firearm and that being placed on a firearms prohibition order gave NSW Police special powers to search his home without the need for a warrant.

The NCAT spokesperson said, “We understand the potential for abuse of the powers that are authorised by a firearms prohibition order and that they can be used as a random search power without the need for a search warrant and therefore without the protections associated with a search warrant.”

However, it was judged that there was, “no weight” to the club leader’s submission that the interpretation of the Firearm Act could mean that “the Commissioner would be required to issue a firearms prohibition order against himself and every member of the NSW Police force” as some members of the force had been “convicted of criminal offences.”

A local marriage celebrant from Echuca provided a reference for Mr Addison suggesting he was a man of “high values, ethics and loyalty” and was a “highly regarded craftsmen in the funeral industry.”

However, Anthony Macken, a criminal analyst, claiming to being a ‘specialist’ in outlaw motor cycle clubs, told the tribunal that the Bandidos have a documented history of violence as well as possession and use of weapons. He said the club had members who were involved in crimes including drug offences and violence and that violence was employed to enforce the hierarchical structure within the club. NCAT stated that Mr Addison’s position of president means that “he is capable of intimidating members of the community generally and other members of the Bandidos in particular.”

In September 2018, the Queensland Court of Appeal upheld a jail sentence against Blair Thomsen, the head of the Caloundra Chapter of the Bandidos. When Stephen John Chambers left the gang in 2012 due to ill health he was ordered to attend the clubhouse. When he declined he was told that if he didn’t attend, the Bandidos would come to him. The judge noted that from experience Chambers knew that if his former colleagues came to his home “violence and damage” would ensue.

At the clubhouse meeting Thomsen said to him, “Sprogg, we’re taking your fucking bike.” This was because of Chambers’ “disrespect”. Mr Chambers never saw his $18,000 Harley Davidson again. Instead, the registration showed a new owner – Jason Addison, the national president.

In 2015 Mr Addison was charged with extortion after a former Bandidos member was forced to sign over his Sunshine Coast marble business to Mr Addison, along with his bike and the family home. The man was allegedly threatened with personal harm if he did not comply. In 2017 a Queensland jury found Mr Addison not guilty of all charges.

Honoring Greatness Among Us at Laconia Motorcycle Week, 2019

(Laconia, NH) – Monday night, June 10th, some of those past and present, with over 40 years serving our motorcycle community promoting rights and safety / awareness, will be remembered and recognized at the Looney Bin Bar and Grill, in Laconia, in memory of Bob Doiron, the creator in 1982 of the “Check Twice – Save a Life, MOTORCYCLES are Everywhere motto and bumper stickers.

“This is our 5th year reunion of sorts with Charlie St. Clair, Executive Director of Laconia Motorcycle Week Association, just recognizing some of our long time local Biker heros and advocates who’ve put so much time, energy, efforts, talents, money, their heart and soul for over 40 years helping our riding community,” said Paul W. Cote, who Doiron passed along the “Check Twice” property to as its caretaker and leader of the American Citizen Biker Political Action Committee.

“Bob and others not only rode for years but also pounded the pavement supporting biker rights, safety and awareness aimed at reducing accidents,” claims Cote.

“We started this reunion and recognition night at Laconia 5 years ago after the sudden, unexpected death of long time rights advocate and activist Billy Gannon, who was my mentor. We didn’t get to honor him and tell him while he was alive and tell him how appreciative we all were of this work on our behalf,” Cote said.”

“But we got to honor and thank Bob Doiron before he passed in 2016 and Bob supported recognizing other ‘ole schoolers’ like him who had more yesterdays than tomorrows.”

The Monday, June 10th reunion, remembering and recognition night at the Looney Bin (where else ?) begins at 7:00 p.m., with “Down Cellah” band rockin and presentation between music sets to this years honorees, including Joe Richard, co-founder (1977) of the Horror Merchants (MC); Joanne Packard, the matriarch of the New Hampshire Motorcyclist Rights Association (NHMRO), both who left us in 2018 and are riding in peace; Dick Cartier, long time local and Northeast Bike Show Promoter; and another special – still secret honoree.

For more info, see FaceBook Event page at
Check Twice night Remembering Reunion and Recognition at Laconia
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WHEELS THROUGH TIME HITS 17 YEARS– Dale’s Wheels Through Time Museum is celebrating 17 years of preserving and promoting American motorcycle history in Maggie Valley, NC the week of July 4-9.

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The weekend celebration will be highlighted by the running of 17 of the world’s rarest motorcycles, including rare experimental models, unique racing bikes, and one-of-a-kind machines such as the 1916 Traub, often billed the “World’s Rarest Motorcycle.”

Relocated to North Carolina in 2002, Dale’s Wheels Through Time Museum and the expansive collection housed inside is the lifetime work of founder and curator Dale Walksler.

The vision for the museum started over 52 years ago when a young 15-year-old Walksler bought a wrecked Harley Davidson for twenty dollars from behind a local service station. This purchase would be the first of many more to come and an investment that would cement a legacy of motorcycle pursuits. A few weeks later, Walksler had the bike running and the rest, as they say, is history.

On the Trail of Genghis Khan – Mongolia – May 2019

VINTAGE RIDES BEST SHOTS– We recently took our riders to remote areas
in Mongolia and Nepal for motorcycle holidays off the beaten track.
Check out some of our most beautiful adventure tour photos!

Mustang: the Legendary Expedition – Nepal – May 2019

On the Trail of Genghis Khan – Mongolia – May 2019

Mustang: the Legendary Expedition – Nepal – October 2017

Photo credits: Johann Rousselot / Leo Fvy / Ravi Nayak / Deepak Thakur

Vintage Rides
(By appointment only)
128 rue de la Boétie
75008 PARIS
hello@vintagerides.com
+442032898785

DIRECT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE–Why Mexico must act

America’s border crisis reached another milestone today—and not an encouraging one. A few hours ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released its apprehension figures for last month. There’s only one way to describe the new report.

“Just stunning,” in the words of The Washington Post’s immigration enforcement reporter.

144,278. That’s how many immigrants were apprehended or deemed inadmissible at our southern border last month alone. The May figure represents a 32 percent spike from April and makes for the third straight month with at least 100,000 apprehensions or inadmissibles. All told, CBP officials have detained more than 680,000 such migrants this fiscal year alone—more than the entire population of Miami, Florida.

“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger: The system is broken,” acting CBP Commissioner John Sanders told reporters today.

The changing face of illegal immigration demands immediate attention. Families and unaccompanied children make up a growing share of those who circumvent our legal immigration system, which makes an already-severe humanitarian crisis even worse. Last month, 88,676 family unit migrants—including both legitimate families and groups that human smugglers pose as families to game the system—and 11,893 unaccompanied children were apprehended or deemed inadmissible at the border.

President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly called on Congress to address the holes in our immigration system that cause this crisis. Just as it has for decades, Capitol Hill ducked. Congressional Democrats have gone so far as to deny that any crisis exists at all.

Americans deserve the real action that politicians have promised them for years. Last Thursday, President Trump took it, announcing that the United States would place tariffs on goods from Mexico until our southern neighbor steps up and helps stop the massive number of migrants who violate its laws to illegally access our border.

More than words are needed. America has been good to Mexico for many years. All we ask now is that Mexico do its fair share to support our Border Patrol officers and bring law and order to its side of the border, as well. President Trump is confident that Mexico can and will act swiftly to confront this dangerous situation.

Louisiana Unanimously Passes Anti-Motorcycle Profiling Law–
On June 3, 2019 Louisiana became the third state in America to unanimously pass legislation addressing the issue of motorcycle profiling when the Louisiana House voted 103-0 in favor of HB 141, and concurred with the Louisiana Senate’s 38-0 approval with amendments the day before. Following similar laws in Washington State (2011) and Maryland (2016), HB 141 requires motorcyclist profiling training to be integrated into current training on biased policing.

Notably, Louisiana is the first state to pass a law following the US Senate’s unanimous approval on December 11, 2018 of a resolution directing every state to follow Washington and Maryland’s lead.

Louisiana’s victory, a result of Representative Howard sponsoring ABATE of Louisiana Inc.’s grassroots driven e?orts- with the support of the Louisiana Confederation of Clubs, the National Council of Clubs and the MPP- are important for a number of reasons. HB 141 will reduce incidents of profiling in the short and long-term.

Also, HB 141 demonstrates that motorcycle profiling is a non-partisan issue impacting motorcyclists in blue and red states alike, regardless of party a?liation. This, in turn, will likely make things a bit easier for the next state, and even the federal government, to address the issue.

Reducing incidents of profiling.

Mandatory motorcycle profiling training will bring a greater awareness of the issue to law enforcement in Louisiana. This will, in turn, reduce incidents of motorcycle profiling. But even before the first o?cer is trained, the increase in awareness of the issue as a result of legislative action will likely have a more short-term impact.

Using Washington State as the example with the most data, based on the reduction in reports to the WA State Council of Clubs, integrating motorcycle profiling training into current training on profiling noticeably reduced incidents of profiling in the state. The impact was immediate and, the MPP believes, most likely the result of an immediate increase in awareness.

Although some profiling incidents do still occur, reported incidents are nowhere near pre-2011 levels. Importantly, when challenged in court, most incidents that do occur result in dismissals. But the key to maintaining a reduction has been continued diligence from the same community that pushed for a new law in the first place.

Unanimous Consent

Notably, laws addressing motorcycle profiling have been the result of legislation passed without a single no vote, in any committee or on the floor, in Washington State and Maryland. Louisiana proudly continues this trend with HB 141, also passing all legislative stages unanimously.

Laws addressing motorcycle profiling are nonpartisan, speaking to a broad base of legislators on both sides of the aisle. Louisiana is far more conservative than Washington State or Maryland. HB 141 demonstrates that discriminatory policing is equally condemnable by the left and the right, particularly the targeting of an entire community defined by the 1st Amendment. Motorcycle profiling is an issue providing the opportunity for collaboration and cooperation unbound by party a?liation that every legislator should openly support.

A Word of Caution

Passing a law addressing motorcycle profiling is a noticeable accomplishment that should not be undersold. ABATE of Louisiana has driven a grassroots e?ort into the end zone. Although nowhere near pre-2011 levels- the year the law passed- motorcycle profiling incidents still do occur in Washington State. Maintaining a grassroots infrastructure in the form of the Washington State Council of Clubs and Washington State ABATE provides a place for victims of profiling to report their incidents and receive advice and in some cases legal assistance.

Many dismissals have been granted since 2011. Many of these individuals received advice or assistance from the COC. The MPP believes maintaining a grassroots infrastructure in Louisiana will be directly connected to the new law’s ultimate e?ectiveness.

There are considerations beyond dismissals as well. For example, motorcycle profiling sensitivity training will be o?cial law enforcement policy in Louisiana providing a tangible basis for o?cial complaints filed against o?ending o?cers. An e?cient organizational response to incidents that do occur will help insure the new law addressing motorcycle profiling is as e?ective as possible.

May the dominoes fall

Every state that passes laws addressing motorcycle profiling makes the next state considering the issue more likely to act. This is particularly true when, in the legislative e?orts that have seen success, there has not been a single vote of opposition by an elected o?cial at the state or federal level.

Every successful e?ort addressing motorcycle profiling has also been centered around a grassroots movement consisting of collaboration between independent motorcyclists and the motorcycle club community. Indeed, Louisiana is the most recent living example of why the MPP was founded and proof of the results that can be obtained, without opposition, by implementing the best practices and principles developed at the state and national level.

Congratulations Louisiana.

–Double D
Motorcycle Profiling Project

NEW WALLETS AVAILABLE– Awesome.. I sent a message to Jon Towle for the Dimebag logo.

I got a couple more hand-tooled leather wallets completed. I drew all the art looking using vintage Harley gas tank emblem art. I really like how they are turning out.

These are available for order now at www.AdamCroftLeather.bigcartel.com

QUICK, OPEN THE BIKERNET BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home.

I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.

The woman said, “Unbutton your shirt”
So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.

She said, “That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me”, and she processed my Social Security application.

When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office. She said, “You should have dropped your pants. You might have got disability too.”

And then the fight started.

–from Sam Burns

THE 5-BALL LEATHERS FIT RULE—from a customer:

Hope all is well. Thanks for the swag!!! Very cool. The shirt is a PERFECT FIT! Great product! Nice features and quality. Although I will admit it is heavier than I had hoped.

So I swim in the 4x. I had to go buy a tape measure to be accurate. I’m a 50 gallon drum. 50” chest same at the belly. But I’m dropping inches so… I’m gonna go with the 2x and I’ll get laces put on it.

P.S. thanks for the book. Didn’t know that about you being a writer.

–Diablo

We have a rule in the 5-Ball Racing Leather family. It if doesn’t fit, send it back. We will exchange it for another size, no charge for anything, including shipping. We want you to wear your 5-Ball leather shirt, vest or jacket for years to come, comfortably.—Bandit

This light and breathable Ballistic Nylon vest has suddenly become very popular. It’s a natural for Hawaii and humid climates.—Bandit

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QUICK BIKE REVIEW WITH CHOW–

https://youtu.be/mATxZOuihlw

What a bike! The first thing I noticed was that huge rear tire, it has a cool custom look right out of the gate. The second thing was how comfortable and light the 2019 felt vs my 06 Fat Boy and the third and most important was the power of this stock bike!

Over 100hp and 100-foot-pounds of torque at the rear wheel! I actually spun out the rear tire at one point during the test ride, when we took off!

Jeremy the Sales Manager at City Limits Harley and I had a blast taking these two Fat Boys out!

We also stopped for awesome Bacon, Peanut Butter Burgers at Rep’s place!! Get some!! Thank you, City Limits Harley for letting me take out the 2019 Fat Boy!

–BikerDude

ELECTRIC REVOLUTION Exhibition Opening–
Right passed the entrance of the world famous Los Angeles Petersen Automotive Museum, owner Kent Riches’ electric race motorcycle sits spotlighted amongst a large crowd of onlookers who arrived for the opening of the Electric Revolution Exhibition.

If you missed all the importance of this thing, it set the world record for fastest electric motorcycle 203.833mph at the Salt Flats in 2009!

Curated by Paul d’Orléans, this exhibit aims to explore the history and current state of the electric industry, seen through the handiwork of both visionary home-builders and established manufacturers, with ultra-stylish contemporary designs that point the way to the future.

–AIR TECH Streamlining

ANTIQUE MOTORCYCLE DEAL OF THE WEEK–
The other Milwaukee motorcycle!! Fielbach limited in 1913 and 1914 were not only built in Harley’s back yard they were bigger and faster. Built to an excellent standards, cops loved the single speed Limited, because they “were able to easily overtake a speeding automobile.“

–Don Whalen
Sierra Madre Motorcycle Co.

This classic is for sale. If you are seriously interested drop me a line to Bandit@Bikernet.com and I’ll reach out to Don.–Bandit

THE FLYING NUN MEETS MOTORCYCLE MISSIONS– “The Flying Nun? I have just been blessed this morning by Sister Mary James of the Carmelite Sister of The Most Sacred Heart Los Angeles for buying her custom FXR built by Mil Blair!

Why does an elderly Catholic Nun who still wears a full habit own a Harley? This motorcycle was the last bike built by Mil Blair, co-founder of Easyriders Magazine. It is a pro-street frame with a hot rodded TWEVO motor. (A Twin Cam set of jugs and heads on an EVO bottom end) with an air shifter.

Mil Blair contracted Parkinsons soon after completing this hot rod meant for the drag strip. The motorcycle was donated to Sister Mary James. I have recently purchased this machine and am having it delivered to Bikernet.com™ Headquarters to be donated to Krystal Hess, Founder of Motorcycle-Missions.org as a potential 2020 West Coast build by her PTS(D) Veterans & First Responders Build Program.

The current plan is to reconfigure the metal work, handlebars, suspension, seat, paint & re-gear it as a future Texas Mile Land Speed bike. An exciting project when the unlikely combination of The Power of The Carmelite Sisters Prayer comes together with The Power of Motorcycle-Missions.org Veterans!

We may have found a direct line to the Gods of Speed? #TheFlyingNunProject #DivineGodSpeed #TheTexasMile? #StayTuned Steve Klein Founding Board Member.

–The Klein Collection TXUSA”

THE ULTIMATE GUN NUT REPORT–KEEP YOUR GUN – DON’T SHOOT YOURSELF!

Think about it this way…

There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed. U.S. population 328,735,259 as of Monday, May 6, 2019. Do the math: 0.009125884% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant! What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:

• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws ?• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified ?• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence ?• 3% are accidental discharge deaths

So technically, “gun violence” is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?

• 480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago ?• 344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore ?• 333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit ?• 119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)

So, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.

This leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.

Now, who has the strictest gun laws by far? California, of course, but understand, so it is not guns causing this. It is a crime rate spawned by the number of criminal persons residing in those cities and states. So if all cities and states are not created equally, then there must be something other than the tool causing the gun deaths.

Are 5,100 deaths per year horrific? How about in comparison to other deaths? All death is sad and especially so when it is in the commission of a crime but that is the nature of crime. Robbery, death, rape, assault all is done by criminals and thinking that criminals will obey laws is ludicrous. That’s why they are criminals.

But what about other deaths each year?

• 40,000+ die from a drug overdose–THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR THAT! ?• 36,000 people die per year from the flu, far exceeding the criminal gun deaths ?• 44,000 people die per year in traffic fatalities(exceeding gun deaths even if you include suicide)

Now it gets good:

• 200,000+ people die each year (and growing) from preventable medical errors. You are safer in the Chicago streets than in Cook County hospital!

• 710,000 people die per year from heart disease. It’s time to stop the double cheeseburgers! So what is the point? If our law makers and the anti-gun movement focused their attention on heart disease, even a 10% decrease in cardiac deaths would save twice the number of lives annually of all gun-related deaths (including suicide, law enforcement, etc.). A 10% reduction in medical errors would be 66% of the total gun deaths or 4 times the number of criminal homicides……Simple, easily preventable 10% reductions!

So you have to ask yourself, in the grand scheme of things, why the focus on guns? It’s pretty simple.:

Taking away guns gives control to governments.

The founders of this nation knew that regardless of the form of government, those in power may become corrupt and seek to rule as the British did by trying to disarm the populace of the colonies. It is not difficult to understand that a disarmed populace is a controlled populace.

Thus, the second amendment was proudly and boldly included in the U.S. Constitution. It must be preserved at all costs.

So the next time someone tries to tell you that gun control is about saving lives, look at these facts and remember these words from Noah Webster: “Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.

A military force at the command of Congress can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power.”

Remember, when it comes to “gun control,” the important word is “control,” not “gun.”

–from Joe Teresi
Private Citizen

We are trying to get these statistics confirmed.–Bandit

BIKER BUILD-OFF BUCKLE FOUND—We recently discovered one rare Biker Build-Off Bill Wall Belt Buckles and belt. It was locked in the hands of the former director, Hugh the Chopper King. It’s now for sale.

Bill Wall’s signed buckles and belts run from $1300 to $1500. But they are much smaller than the Ultimate Biker Build Off buckle.

Let me know if you would like to make an offer on this rare and signed buckle.–Bandit

U.S. Traffic Law History and Why State Laws Are Subordinate: 

NMA Nevada Activist, Executive Director of Best Highway Safety Practices Institute

Editor’s Note: This is Part 1 of what Chad half-jokingly refers to as his manifesto, written nearly ten years ago from a federalist point of view. This installment details the development of traffic laws in the United States and the origins of the government entities that oversee those laws, for better or worse. It is a history worth knowing, written by someone who has been actively involved in traffic law reform with the named agencies and the courts for most of his professional life.

Our Founding Fathers knew that the regulation of our nation’s transportation corridors (Article 1 § 8(7); Post Roads) along with commerce and national defense were indispensable to the general welfare of the nation, and these powers were not enumerated to the states.

In the 19th century, Post Roads came to embrace all related modalities, including the telegraph, railroads, waterways, etc.

Before travel became ubiquitous, and we changed the nomenclature of our nation’s “post roads” in the early 20th Century to roadways or highways, this constitutional authority nexus was raised from time to time, but for all practical purposes, it was dormant in the public’s consciousness.

The need for uniformity to achieve safety came to the fore in 1926 with the first efforts to establish a Uniform Vehicle Code (UVC), and in 1927 the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), but the realization of Eisenhower’s’ National Defense and Interstate System turned it into an imperative.

In 1966, in addition to Congress’ constitutional regulatory authority per Article 1§8(7), Congress in the Highway Safety Act of 1966 (P.L. 89-564, 80 Stat. 731) invoked the Commerce Clause to encompass this entire field to achieve roadway safety on any facility open to public travel.

In this Act, Congress assigned oversight to the Commerce Department and the former Bureau of Roads, et al.; in 1967 this new cabinet-level agency became operational as the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). The reconfigured authority included the new Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) that was responsible for roadways and traffic control and the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD); and the new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that was assigned drivers, vehicles and oversight of the Uniform Vehicle Code (UVC).

The “U” in MUTCD and UVC is the term “uniform,” which is implicit in all federal acts and regulations and adjudication standards per the Equal Protection Clause, US Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The Highway Safety Act of 1966, et al., as adopted by Congress, created a new paradigm for the nation’s traffic laws. Its phased-in mandates encompassed all of us; individuals, law enforcement, public entities, the courts, and the USDOT!

All means and instruments of travel, traffic control, and the exercise of police powers became a fact-based federally regulated field designed to be uniform in every aspect regardless of political boundaries, entity type or classification in the US and its Territories; subject to all constitutional protection therein. Any subordinate regulation must substantially conform to the same standards as the empowering law, including those regulating the actions of a federal agency per 5 USC 706. It is the responsibility of the USDOT that these mandates and individual rights remain unabridged; the agency was empowered to cause compliance.

Whether the USDOT acts or not, it does not abrogate the rights of the citizen, or the responsibility of the posting authority and the engineering practitioners to promulgate their laws and practices in substantial conformance with the US Constitution and Congress’ intent. Nor can the USDOT allow an inferior Authority in a federally regulated field to violate the mandates of the governing federal laws.

The Supremacy Clause invalidates state laws and federal agency administrative rules, MUTCD or UVC regulations that interfere with, or are contrary to the US Constitution and the intent of Congress. As such, USDOT (FHWA; NHTSA) is not empowered to abrogate or subvert these mandates, only enforce them.

–NMA

THE VOICE OF DENNIS MANNING AND THE SALT TORPEDO—I spoke to Dennis Manning today about his Number 7 Streamliner Effort and our Salt Torpedo.

We needed to know about Naca vents and 4-inch wide Naca vents should do the trick at the rear with a 1-inch vent in the front. Dennis tested his in a wind tunnel with Chris Carr under the canopy. Without any exhaust vents air seemed to escape, so one in the front should do the trick for the pilot.

The rear are way more important and critical. Dennis mentioned that in the mile his engine is running cooler than in the beginning. He has room to play with regarding heat and his engine.

Our other issue encompassed the hatch, how it should hinge and how it should lock down. He mentioned that his current cupboard unit wasn’t working and they were replacing it with a Bear claw type clasp available from hot rod sites.

Regarding the hinge he made one comment. We need a lip of the front of the canopy to slip under the inside of the body to prevent vibration from allowing air to slip under the canopy and lift it. Never got to the hinge.

NEW FROM LOWBROW–What’s up, Doc?
I’ll tell you what’s up. Two styles of new Rabbit Ear handlebars from Lowbrow Customs. Available in standard and narrow versions, in your choice of black or chrome.

These bars are at home on a ground-up chopper (like Mikey’s Shovelhead with the Narrow Rabbit Ears), though they also transform the look and feel of mild to wild custom Sportsters and Big Twins alike.

Quick and easy install to dial in your bike, only $99.95 and free shipping!

NEWS FLASH FROM THE CLIMATE DEPOT–Greenpeace co-founder Dr. Patrick Moore on UN species scare: “You cannot call yourself a scientist if you pretend that there are 6.2 million species that have no names and have never been identified. That is not science. That is fiction. Fairy tale stories. And that’s what we’re being told here.”

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano described the report as a politically driven document, “the latest U.N. appeal to give it more power, more scientific authority, more money and more regulatory control.” “At best, the U.N. science panels represent nothing more than ‘authoritative bureaucracy,’ claiming they hype the problem and then come up with the solution that puts them in charge of ‘solving’ the issue in perpetuity,” Mr. Morano said in his prepared remarks. “A more accurate term for the U.N. than ‘authoritative science’ may be ‘authoritative propaganda.’”

Mr. Huffman fired back, referring to Mr. Morano as a troll. “I don’t know what inspires someone to make a career out of trolling scientists or monetizing contrarian ideology on the YouTube and Ted Talk circuit, but it’s just a very different kind of conversation than the science-based conversation I think many of us would try to have,” Mr. Huffman said.

No House committee hearing this year would be complete without a climate change row. Republicans took aim at the Green New Deal, the Paris climate agreement and the 97% scientific “consensus,” while Democrats’ witnesses stressed the impact of global warming on species.

OKAY—I’m sorta tired of this global bullshit and most folks ignore it anyway. We are living in the best of times, I swear. We should honor our accomplishments and freedoms.

I’m just a grubby biker but I believe in freedom and not in anyone who claims doomsday. I’m so surprised to witness all the media just bending to this bullshit without questioning a word. There are more media outlets and books surfacing constantly against the Global Warming Hoax, but mainstream media and even the motorcycle press doesn’t question the intentions or facts.

I’m blown away anytime someone wants to take our freedoms and folks don’t say, “Wait a minute. Let’s take a hard look at what you are saying.” When the media attacks the NRA, I point out that the NRA is protecting our right. Get a grip.

Didn’t anyone check the history books. A politician in the ‘50s claimed doomsday regarding communism. People lost their freedoms and jobs, but finally came to their senses and kicked his ass.

Bikers faced the same scenario with the helmet law. Joan Claybrook came up with the excuse to take our freedoms away, the public burden theory. If it costs the public there needs to be a law. Quickly, motorcycle rights groups came up with ways to dispute her claims and retain freedom.

Now we have this claim against the planet, the ultimate excuse to take our freedoms. Governments love it. But here’s the fly in their ointment: What if ten years from now nothing happened? That would make it about 27 years since Al Gore proclaimed doomsday.

I’ll keep fighting for freedom and questioning authority until the end. I guess it’s my nature as just another grubby biker who loves to ride free.

You know the drill…

–Bandit

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Country legend and original female outlaw Tanya Tucker returns after 17 years. Tucker’s new album, While I’m Livin’, is set for release on August 23 via Fantasy Records. Produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, the album marks Tucker’s first for the label and her first new material since 2002’s Tanya. Watch/share the video for the album’s debut song “The Wheels of Laredo,” directed by Myriam Santos here and pre-order While I’m Livin’ here. Additionally, Tucker and Carlile will take the stage for a performance at tonight’s CMT Awards.

“Brandi is truly out of this world. She’s talented, smart, funny, never ever slows down and has a heart of gold,” says Tucker of the collaboration. “I just love her. She was like my shadow when we were in the studio. Every time I turned around, she was there. And Shooter, I’ve known him since he was a baby. He’s the one who brought us all together. So I’m ready to get this music out there because it’s different than anything I’ve ever done.”

While I’m Livin’ is largely comprised of songs written by Carlile, the twins Tim and Phil Hanseroth and Tucker. “It’s a musical biography of sorts,” said Carlile, “about Tanya’s real life and the places she’s seen, and it’s narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash.”

“The Day My Heart Goes Still” is a reflection of Tucker’s enduring love for her late father, while “Mustang Ridge” recalls her hardscrabble childhood in central Texas. While I’m Livin’ also contains some well-chosen covers including “High Ridin’ Heroes,” a 1987 song Shooter selected that featured David Lynn Jones and his dad, Waylon Jennings, “The House That Built Me,” a track made famous by Miranda Lambert and “Hard Luck” the 1979 chestnut by country-rockers, Josefus.

In many ways, the album’s cornerstone is “Bring My Flowers Now,” the only tune that was co-written by Tucker, Carlile and the twins. The album closer, told through Carlile’s solo piano and Tucker’s plaintive vocal, speaks to the importance of showing appreciation to those we love, before it’s too late. Carlile explains, “We have so few opportunities to thank the legends that have influenced the generations of Country music singers and writers. With Tanya we have quite an opportunity because she’s young. I’m drawn to Tanya Tucker because she’s been to hell and to heaven, not to mention every square inch of Texas. She’s lived, she’s living, she’s got something to say and I’m listening.”

Born in Seminole, Texas, Tucker had her first country hit, the classic “Delta Dawn,” at the age of 13 in 1972. Since that auspicious beginning Tucker has become one of the most admired and influential artists in country music history, amassing 23 Top 40 albums and a stellar string of 56 Top 40 singles, ten of which reached the #1 spot on the Billboard country charts. Tucker’s indelible songs include some of country music’s biggest hits such as the aforementioned “Delta Dawn,” “Soon,” “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane,” “It’s a Little Too Late,” “Trouble,” “Texas (When I Die),” “If It Don’t Come Easy” and “Strong Enough To Bend,” among others. Tucker is also the recipient of numerous awards, including two CMAs, two ACMs, three CMT awards and ten GRAMMY nominations.

WHILE I’M LIVIN TRACKLIST
1. Mustang Ridge
(written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

2. The Wheels Of Laredo
(written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

3. I Don’t Owe You Anything
(written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

4. The Day My Heart Goes Still
(written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

5. High Ridin’ Heroes
(written by David Lynn Jones)

6. The House That Built Me
(written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin)

7. Hard Luck
(written by John C. “Pete” Bailey, David Lee Mitchell, Raymond L. Turner and Jerry Ontiberoz)

8. Rich
(written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

9. Seminole Wind Calling
(written by Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

10. Bring My Flowers Now
(written by Tanya Tucker, Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth)

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Hey,

Don’t think I’ll have time for a Weekend Round-up today. Finished my Cycle Source Magazine Deadline this week and they are featuring a tech on our Salt Torpedo, World’s Fastest Trike Effort, in the July issue.

We check our Google Numbers for all Bikernet entities on the first of each month and we’ve noticed severe increases in traffic. What the hell does it mean? We jumped from about 70,000 total to well over 300,000 unique users from April to May. That includes big numbers from the Bikernet Blog, then Bikernet, Bikernet Trikes and Bikernet Baggers.

Hang on for more news. In the meantime I’m stuck in the Bikernet Fiberglass Prison sanding and making patterns for the last layer of fiberglass, which might be applied tomorrow. My son is in Austin, Texas checking out his new home. My grandson is in Amsterdam at a tattoo convention, and then he and his tattoo artist girlfriend, Em, will hit London and Paris before returning to LA.

Don’t forget to join the Cantina and make sure to read the latest Cantina Series Episode, Number 85. And check out the new 5-Ball Racing team van. Making modification as I write this. Hang on for more reports.

–Bandit