Hey,
Times are crazy as you will see in the news. I’m reading another book about the errors of the Climate Doomsday bullshit. It’s called Unsettled by Steven E. Koonin. He’s a scientist who worked for the Obama administration. The more he studied the facts, the more the media and the control-freaks had it wrong.
We are about to publish a story about the motorcycle boom during the Covid era. It’s interesting how our industry flourished when the world was shut down.
I’m about to finish a Life and Times piece about our move to the Badlands. I’m hoping it will help others, who are grappling with similar decisions. It was a stressful challenge but well worth every box of crap we hauled out here.
Let’s hit the news:
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HOT SHIT ON THE BIKERNET BLOG–
You know if this Canadian startup company Damon made its first electric motorcycle to go 200 miles with a 200 hp power – I don’t understand what research and money Harley spent on LiveWire to give it such a low range on a single charge.
Then there is the other market leader in electric motorcycles, Zero., also so many times better and advanced than LiveWire.
Have a look at sensors and AI built into this model of Damon, an industry first 360-degree warning system as well.
Damon Motorcycles to enter Latin America
https://blog.bikernet.com/damon-motorcycles-to-enter-latin-america/
–Wayfarer
Editor and Emperor
Bikernet Blog
THE CONTROL FREAKS ARE AT IT AGAIN–US House Democrats Seek Government Funds for Speed Cameras
Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared on TheNewspaper.com Website June 8, 2021 and with permission we repost this important post on the NMA Ticket Cam Alert USA Blog.
Federal transportation reauthorization measure would use taxpayer dollars to subsidize the roll out of speed cameras nationwide.
The US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Wednesday will review sweeping legislation that would, among other things, encourage local governments to set up speed cameras using federal taxpayer dollars. The move would reverse a ban on federal funding for both red light cameras and speed cameras that has been in place since 2015.
The House Democratic leadership’s proposed transportation reauthorization measure, dubbed the Invest in America Act, provides for a half-trillion dollars in spending with a new emphasis on passenger rail, public transit, cycling and walking infrastructure. It also adds a provision gutting the ban on taxpayer funding of speed cameras.
“Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), a state may expend funds apportioned to that state under this section to carry out a program to purchase, operate, or maintain an automated traffic system in a work zone or school zone,” the proposal states.
The federal government played a key role in the early development of red light cameras and speed cameras with the US Departments of Transportation (US DOT) and Defense providing critical seed money for their development prior to 1997. Five cities that were among the early adopters of photo enforcement were paid to do so by the Federal Highway Administration, including Beaverton, Oregon and Washington, DC.
The situation is different today, as photo radar firms offer “turn key” automated ticketing services for municipalities that require no public funding. In return for the right to issue citations on a city’s behalf, the company will install and operate the cameras and collect the citation money, depositing the funds in a city-designated bank account minus the photo enforcement firm’s cut (whether in the form of a percentage of revenue or a fixed fee). The offer of federal funds would merely increase the city’s cut of the ticket profit.
The Invest Act would also require the US DOT to begin studying school bus stop arm cameras and issue a report to Congress on their performance within two years. The 2015 Fast Act had previously required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to collect performance data sufficient to judge the effectiveness of speed cameras and red light cameras from each state, but the agency has allowed states to, for the most part, ignore the legal requirement and send in unverified survey responses containing incorrect and incomplete data. Results in 2020 continued with states submitting check-box forms devoid of performance data.
Florida, the only state besides Missouri to take the report seriously, did offer accident numbers. The state noted there were 12,211 accidents at red light camera intersections, an increase of 17 percent from the 10,410 accidents that occurred prior to camera installation. Both rear-end and angle crashes increased.
The Senate’s version of the transportation reauthorization bill, which was drafted with input from Republican senators, does not contain the provision encouraging the use of speed cameras.
By Shelia Dunn, NMA Communications Director
–NMA
Bad Joke Library, WEDDING REPORTS– for your special day last week.
At Marriage Counseling –
Counselor: “So your wife tells me you never buy her flowers.”
Husband: “I honestly never knew she sells flowers”
* * *
Definition: Husband – A husband is someone who, after taking the trash out, gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house.
* * *
Wife: “If I had known you were this poor I wouldn’t have married you.”
Husband: “When I was telling you that you are the only thing I have in this world, what did you not understand?”
* * * 
Wife quotable quotes: “I have birthed an entire baby in less time than it takes my husband to poop.”
Wife quotable quotes: “He asked why the house isn’t clean since I am home all day. I asked him why we aren’t rich since he works all day.”
Wife quotable quotes: “My husband thinks I am crazy, but I am not the one who married me”
* * *
If husband is head of the family, then what is wife?
Wife is the neck of the family, which can turn the head in any direction.
* * *
Definition: Marriage – the only war where you sleep with the enemy.
–Wayfarer
Marriage Counselor
Bikernet Medical Center
NEW 25TH ANNIVERSARY BIKERNET LOGO—from the mastermind, George Fleming.
“I just finished vectorizing the logo and I made some color variations for you to review. Let me know if you dig any of them and if you want me to try any other color combinations.
“Thanks, and talk to you soon,” George.
BRAND NEW New Bikernet Reader Comment!
SUMMER KICK-OFF BIKERNET WEEKLY NEWS for June 3, 2021
https://www.bikernet.com/pages/SUMMER_KICKOFF_BIKERNET_WEEKLY_NEWS_for_June_3_2021.aspx
–Rogue
rogue@bikernet.com
FL
Thanks, but we are still scrambling. The Redhead needs a driver’s license. I need plates for my Van and 10 motorcycles and insurance. We need a shop built, contractors, surveyors, arborists, you name it. It’s a scramble from one project to the other, but we’re getting there. I’m sure the winter will slow us down.
–Bandit
BIKERNET GUN NUT REPORT–Last week, Assembly Bill 1223, the gun tax bill, was defeated on the Assembly floor when it failed to receive the 2/3 votes necessary for tax bills. After failing, the bill was granted reconsideration and is currently still alive through procedural maneuvering. Please continue to contact your Assembly member and ask them to OPPOSE AB 1223.
Click HERE to Take Action!
Assembly Bill 1223 places an excise tax of 10% on the sales price of a handgun, and places an 11% excise tax on the sales price on all long guns, rifles, firearm precursor parts and ammunition. It is unjust to saddle law-abiding gun owners with special taxes.
Earlier in the week, the Senate passed two anti-gun bills, to further restrict gun shows and to further deny Second Amendment rights to young adults. They now go to the Assembly for further consideration. Click here to read more about them in our legislative alert.
Yours in Freedom,
Ken Lan
Communications Coordinator
NRA-ILA
http://www.nrailafrontlines.com/
MOTORCYCLE Tariff Battles Continue–
Americans for Free Trade – a broad coalition of businesses, trade organizations including the MIC, and workers united against tariffs – worked to encourage dozens of members of Congress to sign on to a letter regarding exclusions for Section 301 tariffs. The letter went to Katherine C. Tai, the new United States Trade Representative for the Biden administration.
The MIC, the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America, and the Recreational Off-Highway Vehicle Association also sent a joint letter to Ambassador Tai, outlining concerns the associations have with China tariffs, European Union tariffs, and with implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, better known as the USMCA free-trade agreement.
“We continue to work with our champions in Congress to encourage the new administration at the USTR to provide exclusions from tariffs on goods like motorcycle safety clothing, helmets, parts, and accessories,” said Scott Schloegel, senior vice president at the MIC GRO. “Tariffs are taxes, raising prices paid by consumers of powersports products.”
–MIC
NEWS FROM THE MASTER OF LIGHT–Artist David Uhl – Laconia 2021 Commemorative
Greetings from Smyrna, Tennessee where we’ll have the gallery this weekend at the Great Tennessee Air Show! If you are in the area, please stop in and see us.
For the first time ever, David has created a special piece for Laconia Motorcycle Week this year. Celebrating it’s 98th anniversary, Laconia is one of the longest running motorcycle events in the country.
In David’s words, “Growing up with 400 miles of water out my bedroom window makes me yearn for the boating lifestyle again. Colorado doesn’t have much to offer other than going in circles in a dammed upriver with a herd. I couldn’t resist putting both these vintage machines together to represent this rally by the lake. If you find yourself in the area, please stop in at the Speedway and say hello!”
“Live Free or Die”
David Uhl 2021
We’ll be sending the final image out again once we get the final scan.
Similar to David’s Sturgis and Daytona commemorative pieces each year, signed and numbered canvas prints will come framed with a Certificate of Authenticity and adorned with a special nameplate.
We are now taking orders for the prints, which are available at special Rally pricing through the end of the event (June 20th). Shipping is included within the contiguous 48 United States for orders placed by June 20th.
** Image size appx 24 x 24, $950 framed
** Image size appx 30 x 30, $2,250 framed. NOTE: We are offering a special pre-rally price of $1,895 for orders that are placed prior to June 16th, when the gallery opens in Laconia.
As always, edition numbers will be assigned as orders are taken.
Please let me know if you’d like to add “Live Free or Die” to your collection. As always, thanks for your time!
–Greg Rhodes
International Sales Director
David Uhl Fine Art
Uhl Studios
303-913-4840
RAY C WHEELER MEMORIAL–Please join us in a celebration of life for my father Ray C Wheeler on Saturday June 26th 2021
Graveside service – 12pm At the Grand Mound cemetery located at 6300 183rd ave sw Rochester Wa 98579. Bbq to follow at our house after to share memories and stories of the wonderful man that was Ray C Wheeler!
For the address or memorial information please call me Robin at 2069473635. Or you can message or comment below!
Thank you for all of the support and well wishes through out this time, it means so much to our family!
–Rogue
EVENT NEWS–Vintage Motorcycle Swap Meet
Mini Bike Races
The Museum will be open 8:00 am to 6:00 pm the day of the Swap Meet. Entrance to the Outside Swap Meet is FREE with a Special Museum Admission for the day of $10.00 per Adult – Children under 12 FREE with a Parent.
There’s nothing like a classic swap meet whether you are buying or selling old motorcycle parts and memorabilia! There will be a bikes-for-sale BIKE CORRAL as well. Have one you want to sell – call in and reserve a spot!
The VINTAGE SWAP MEET at the Museum is only on Saturday, but if you are a vendor, you’re welcome to arrive Friday after Noon, June 25 to get located in your space and begin set up. Security will be provided Friday night. Saturday morning set up starts at 7:00 am and the SWAP MEET gates open to the public at 8:00 am.
CLICK HERE for a form to reserve one of the limited number of 20 x 20 Swap Meet spaces or to reserve space in the Bike Corral.
SPECIAL GUEST – BILL FRANCIS: Who invented the Harley-Davidson Softail? Two guys in St Louis with no connection to Harley, actually. Meet designer/fabricator Bill Francis at Vintage Swap June 26 and listen to his awesome story, how he and Bill Davis sold their brilliant patented design to The Motor Company.
Please give the Museum a call if we can answer any questions. 319-462-3925.
This year the VINTAGE MOTORCYCLE SWAP MEET will include BRAAAP Mini Bike Races with a $500 purse presented by Mini Bike Weirdo.
THE HAL ROBINSON CONNECTION–After reading Bandit’s last episode, I thought this would be appropriate considering all the different freeways that were mentioned.
–Ann Robinson
Join the Cantina and read all 94 Episodes of the Bandit’s Cantina Series. Each one is a kick.
–Bandit
Thieves Keep Stealing Motorcycles From Harley-Davidson Dealerships–Another Harley-Davidson dealership got robbed over the Memorial Day weekend, this time in Tennessee. What originally looked like isolated incidents is turning into a problem as 12 dealerships have been hit by thieves with varying levels of success.
It was only March when a Harley-Davidson dealership in Kokomo, Indiana, experienced a Hollywood-style robbery of $100,000 worth of motorcycles. Now, as a report from Clarksville Now reveals, that dealership was only one in a line of 12 Harley dealerships to have been hit with robberies.
On May 29, Appleton Harley-Davidson became the latest dealership hit. But unlike the Kokomo robbery where the crew was prepared, these thieves did a comically bad job. They tried to make off with five motorcycles but only made off with three, leaving two stuck in a doorway, from Clarksville Now:
The five burglars did manage to get away with three motorcycles, but getting out took so long that two riders had to give up and make a run for it, as police were on the way.
They had to ram one of the bikes repeatedly into a front door to break it. Three of the thieves made it out on motorcycles, but one bike got stuck in the door, and another was trapped behind it.
–Meredes Streeter
Jalopnik
REDHEAD FEVER—Because I’m always thinking of you…..well at the least when it comes to red heads….HAHAHA
–EL Waggs
GUN NUT REPORT–California’s 32-yr assault weapons ban overturned. A “failed experiment…” that’s how a U.S. federal judge described California’s three-decade long ban on assault weapons, as he overturned it on Friday, calling the ban unconstitutional.
In his court order, Judge Roger Benitez wrote “Government is not free to impose its own new policy choices on American citizens where Constitutional rights are concerned… It is declared that these statutes unconstitutionally infringe the Second Amendment rights of California citizens.”
He also likened the AR-15 to a Swiss Army knife, describing both as a “perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.”
California Governor Gavin Newsom was outraged at that comparison and the legal decision overall. He called the ruling a “disgusting slap” in the face to those who have lost loved ones to gun violence.
The court decision is subject to a 30-day stay, during which California’s attorney general, who called Friday’s ruling “fundamentally flawed,” can file an appeal.
California’s ban on the sale of assault weapons dates back to 1989.
Gun control is a hot-button issue in the U.S. where gun enthusiasts see gun ownership as a constitutional right, while gun control advocates want to see fewer guns after decades of deadly mass shootings in public spaces, including schools.
–Reuters.
JACK’S GALLERY–I don’t know if I ever shared this one with you or not, but it’s a group of my “favorite pics” from Sturgis 2019. These are just from my personal galleries of photos that I took, but they center on the Buffalo Chip, since I work there, but I hope you enjoy them.
Thanks.
–Jack
LATEST FROM SUPPORT GOOD TIMES– Bandit,
Hey, I know it’s taken a long time, but we had to wait on Edwards at Whiskey River Art to clear his schedule a bit. Anyway, I think the wait was worth it.
Attached is a copy of the illustration. Hope you dig it. I’d like to offer it as:
1. a tshirt front
2. a tshirt back with Support Good Times logo on the front left chest,
3. a sticker, and possibly
4. a vinyl garage banner.
Let me know your thoughts. And thank you so much for allowing us to produce this in tribute.
We look up to guys like you and I’ll personally put this tee into my collection.
–Cicero
No, thank you for remembering this ol’ grubby biker.–Bandit
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QUICK, OPEN THE BANDIT’S CANTINA BAD JOKE LIBRARY–
Three sisters age 92, 94, and 96 live in a house together.
One night the 96-year-old draws a bath, puts her foot in, and pauses.
She yells down the stairs, “Was I getting in or out of the bath?”
The 94-year old yells back, “I don’t know, I’ll come up and see.”
She starts up the stairs and pauses, then she yells,
“Was I going up the stairs or coming down?”
The 92-year-old was sitting at the kitchen table having tea listening to her sisters. She shakes her head and says, “I sure hope I never get that forgetful.” She knocks on wood for good measure. She then yells, “I’ll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who’s at the door.”
–El Waggs
Certified Librarian
Bandit’s Cantina Bad Joke Library
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS ALERT– Why Drug Abuse, Not Climate Change, Is America’s Biggest Problem. Drugs killed 3,000 times more people than the climate in 2020.
President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress say climate change is the most serious problem facing the United States, and have proposed to spend $1.7 trillion on infrastructure and climate, as well as many billions more, on addressing the issue.
But America’s biggest problem is drug abuse, not climate change. In 2020, nearly 90,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses or poisonings. By contrast, just 308 people in the U.S. died from natural disasters, down from 413 in 2019.
And while drug deaths are skyrocketing, carbon emissions are declining. U.S. emissions declined 22 percent in the U.S. since 2005, which is 5 percentage points more than President Barack Obama promised the U.S. would reduce emissions under the Paris climate treaty.
It’s true that the Biden Administration has proposed new spending on addiction treatment and will likely do more on the issue soon. “My assumption is that later this summer, overdose deaths will be happening at a higher rate than COVID deaths,” Biden advisor and Stanford addiction specialist, Keith Humphreys, told me recently, “and everyone will get engaged in a new way then.”
But there is no scientifically valid scenario for climate change to ever kill 90,000 people in a single year, much less in the U.S. alone. Deaths from natural disasters have plummeted 99 percent in Bangladesh and other poor nations since the 1980s, even as the planet has warmed. Globally, the five-year period ending in 2020 had the fewest natural disaster deaths of any five-year period since 1900.
Neither the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) nor any other reputable scientific body predicts a reversal in the long-term trend of declining deaths, even if temperatures rise significantly. And both IPCC and U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports make clear that economic growth and existing technology can be expected to outweigh impacts of higher temperatures on food production, diseases, and sea level rise.
And while the Biden Administration has made climate change its highest priority and done vanishingly little to address the drug crisis. It has proposed spending just .02 percent of the six trillion dollar budget on the drug epidemic. Biden has yet to say anything of significance about drug policy, and he has not appointed a Drug Czar to head the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.
Nor have the White House, Democrats in Congress, or Democratic governors and mayors proposed a strategy to break-up open drug scenes, mandate treatment as an alternative to incarceration, and launch a national advertising campaign warning of the dangers of fentanyl, meth, and other hard drugs.
As such, President Biden and Democrats in Congress, along with much of the news media and the American people, are deeply confused about what is and is not an urgent national priority. The U.S. is in the midst of an epic drug emergency, not a climate change emergency. The 3,000-to-1 death toll should make that blindingly obvious. But visions of the secular apocalypse and taboos around drugs have triumphed over truth and reason. The longer the confusion lasts, the more people will die.
Hard drugs like fentanyl and meth are not only killing people directly, they are increasing homelessness and undermining public order in liberal cities. Two weeks ago I wrote a column about a San Francisco Bay Area mother named Jacqui Berlinn and her son Corey, who is at high risk of dying from fentanyl overdose on the streets of San Francisco. Jacqui has been trying to save Corey’s life for ten years, but California’s laws are against her, and the politicians are doing little to help.
Desperate for action, Jacqui protested San Francisco’s fentanyl dealers in the Tenderloin neighborhood two weeks ago, and demanded action from politicians, generating widespread news media attention including by the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly and local TV.
Then, last Wednesday, Jacqui and other parents of fentanyl victims protested at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. Four other parents joined us, but their situations were different from Jacqui’s. Fentanyl had already killed their children. You can watch a powerful and moving video of our protest by clicking the button below.
Against the insistence among some progressives that homelessness is strictly the result of poverty and housing prices, researchers for decades have documented not just the prevalence of mental illness and substance abuse among the homeless, but also those conditions’ role in creating homelessness in the first place.
A large, 5,406-person study of US veterans published in 2021 found that the major personal characteristics of the unsheltered homeless were “unmarried status, criminal justice problems, weak social support, medical diagnoses, drug (but not alcohol) problems, low income, and inability to afford basic needs.”
While just 8 and 18 percent of homeless people point to mental illness and substance abuse, respectively, as the primary cause of their homelessness in San Francisco, researchers have long understood that such self- reports are unreliable due to the socially undesirable nature of addiction, and the lack of insight that often accompanies mental illness.
Using other methods, San Francisco’s Health Department in 2019 estimated that 4,000 of the city’s 8,035 homeless, sheltered and unsheltered, are both mentally ill and suffering from substance abuse. Of those 4,000, about 1,600 frequently used emergency psychiatric services.
The same is true in other cities. In 2019, the Los Angeles Times analyzed government data and found that two-thirds of homeless in Los Angeles struggle with either addiction or mental illness.
In the late 1990s, I advocated drug decriminalization, harm reduction, and affordable housing before I started to focus on energy and climate change in the early 2000s. I stopped paying close attention to developments in the area, beyond voting for California state ballot initiatives to decriminalize drugs.
But then, around 2016 and 2017, as overdose deaths rose to 70,000 per year, I started to wonder whether we had gotten drugs wrong. And so, in 2019 I researched and wrote an article for Forbes, “Why California Keeps Making Homelessness Worse,” which described the role of untreated addiction and mental illness in worsening homelessness, and started conducting field research, including by traveling to the Netherlands, to understand how Amsterdam dealt with a similar problem thirty years ago.
Today, drug overdose and poisoning deaths are the single largest cause of accidental death in the US. More people die of drug abuse than of homicide (13,927) or car accidents (36,096). And the rate of increase in overdose/poisoning deaths has been astonishing, from 17,000 in 2000 to 88,000 overdose and poisoning deaths between September 1, 2019, and August 1, 2020, a number that is likely to reach 90,000 when data for the rest of 2020 becomes available.
Cities are essential to protecting the environment, and yet the addiction crisis is destroying California’s cities and affecting Environmental Progress directly. Two of my colleagues moved out of San Francisco earlier this year to escape problems created by its large open drug scene. I regularly encounter, and often try to help, floridly psychotic homeless people near my office. Just one week ago, while driving on the highway, I almost hit a man with my car. He was running across the crowded highway, perhaps in a meth-induced psychosis.
Meanwhile, fentanyl is making experimentation with drugs a death sentence. “This is my son Alexander,” said Amy Neville at our Venice Beach protest last week. “He passed away last June from a single pill. I found him on the floor of his bedroom.” Alexander was just 14. He had only started experimenting with opioids that week. Jaime Puerta’s daughter thought she was sniffing a line of cocaine. It was contaminated with fentanyl and she died.
When people hear those stories, many blame the parents in a knee-jerk way, perhaps because their stories are so emotionally disturbing. In truth, experimentation with drugs is widespread and while we should strongly urge children not to do it, they should not be allowed to die for their transgressions.
A better approach would be to treat the mental health issues that often underlie the desire to use hard drugs, including pharmaceutical opioids, spend $1 billion on public service advertisements warning of their danger, and break up the open drug scenes that make hard drugs cheap and available, as Europe did 30 years ago.
The problem, as I described in past columns, is not just that the policy makers aren’t taking the action they need to take. It’s that they’re making the problem worse. Cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco regulate ice cream stores more than they regulate open-air fentanyl and meth drug dealing. They not only tolerate but enable, through subsidized housing and services, open drug scenes like the ones in Tenderloin and Venice Beach.
In San Francisco, where the overdose death rate is quadruple that of the rest of the U.S., policymakers are only now questioning whether simply reviving overdose victims is a sufficient response to two overdose deaths a day.
“I think it’s the left combined with libertarianism around substances that makes it really hard to manage these problems,” said Stanford’s Keith Humphreys. “Out west, it’s more, ‘Do whatever you want,’ and, ‘No one has a right to interfere with your view.’ Sometimes that is terrific. We’re the home of gay rights. But it doesn’t work well for addiction. The pursuit of allegedly individual freedom ends up ultimately killing the person, and does enormous damage to everybody else.”
Motivated to address this problem, Environmental Progress’s board of directors and major donors decided last year to expand our work. And I am happy to announce that, this fall, HarperCollins will publish a new book by me on the untreated addiction, mental illness, and homeless crisis facing progressive American cities, based on our research.
The good news is that solving the addiction and overdose crisis offers a chance for Americans to come together at a time of historic division. The only way we know how to solve open-air drug scenes is with a combination of carrots and sticks, toughness and love, services and law enforcement. Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Vienna, Zurich and New York City show that we do not need to choose between mass incarceration and mass homelessness.
Mandatory drug and psychiatric treatment as an alternative to incarceration for those who commit crimes. Nobody is proposing to prosecute people using even dangerous and illegal drugs in the privacy of their homes. Nor do Californians want to return to the “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next”-era of mass, involuntary hospitalization.
The flip side to our polarization is the potential to marry the best of liberal and conservative instincts. We need to be compassionate, but we need to be strict, too, with people whose addiction results in them breaking the law, whether through camping in parks and on sidewalks, defecating in streets, and selling, buying, and using hard drugs in public.
In light of the drug abuse crisis, and the opportunity for positive, unifying change, Environmental Progress is expanding our research and policy work. The word that best expresses what we are after is “peace.” It’s what’s missing from our streets and our minds, not just in progressive cities, but in America as a whole. And so we have changed Environmental Progress’s tagline to “Nature, peace, and prosperity for all,” and have launched the California Peace Campaign, complete with Peace Principles, a Peace Agenda, and Frequently Asked Questions.
The apocalyptic climate agenda is rapidly losing legitimacy, and failing politically. This is not just because climate activists are shutting down nuclear plants and increasing emissions, proving that their real motivations have less to do with climate change and more to do with restricting economic growth. It is also because drugs are killing 3,000 times more people than the climate, making plain what’s the true emergency and what isn’t.
Please email me if you’d like to get involved, subscribe now to this newsletter, and consider making a tax-deductible donation to EP.
MORE ON THE MAGNIFICENT BIKERNET BLOG–
Have a look – in April 2021 – Enfield motorcycle record speed of 132.05mph for an air-cooled, OHC parallel twin displacing just 648cc running commercial fuel on original stock frame – Speed Week at Salt Lake Gairdner in South Australia.
Customized Royal Enfield 650 Interceptor sets speed record
https://blog.bikernet.com/customised-royal-enfield-650-interceptor-sets-speed-record/
–Wayfarer
Supreme Editor
Bikernet Blog
CLIMATE HYSTERIA MEMO–Biden warns climate is ‘greatest threat’ to US security: ‘This is not a joke’ – Morano responds: ‘Oh, yes it is a joke’
Marc Morano: “Oh, yes it is a joke.”
‘Global warming’ causes war claims — debunked – ‘Warm periods are more peaceful than cold ones’ – Bonus Chapter #2 for Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change
– Bonus Chapter #2 from The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change:
Excerpt: The climate activists have it backward. A 2011 study published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies titled “The Climate Wars Myth” found, “Since the dawn of civilization, warmer eras have meant fewer wars.” As author Bruno Tetrais explained, “History shows that ‘warm’ periods are more peaceful than ‘cold’ ones…
John Horgan, the director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, explained, “In spite of the recent surge in violence in the Middle East, war-related casualties have fallen over the last half-century, as temperatures have risen…
A 2013 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that cold eras were dark times in Eastern Europe. “Some of Eastern Europe’s greatest wars and plagues over the last millennium coincided with cold periods,” explained a summary of the study in Science News.
–Marc Morano
Supreme Leader
Climate Depot
DIRECT FROM J.J.’s ADVENTURE–
Some fucking 4th generation offspring of the hippies approached me when i was ambling along the Haight-Ashbury district recently in a kind of memory-making personal retrospective of my early 20s….and I’m in grandpa tourist clothing from Middle America, and he approaches me all stinky with some fucking shit-creations he made on a flat tray that I have a hunch were supposed to look like critters and he says, “Do you have a spirit animal?”
I said, “Yeah. C’thulhu.” He kinda jerks and just looks at me for a long time while I look at him and he finally says “You can go to hell, shitface.”
I said “I have been to Hell. I have been sent back here to summon you by force back to the Eternal Pit where you are to be sacrificed to the Elder Gods in a full-moon ceremony on an uncharted island in the Aleutians that is eternally snowless and balmy due to unnatural thermal vents hewn by the damned. You are to be slaughtered and eaten in a ritualist ceremony formulated to jolt from sleep the horror-god of the goat-faced Abomination who will rise from the utter black depths of the deepest ocean trench, and with fins, tentacles, claws, spikes, poisonous skin and immortality begin to walk in towering, plodding fixated resolution on his mission to upend 3-dimensional reality and warp it into mind-shredding 7th dimensional filth and pain.
“You think you have come to me of your own accord with your pathetic tray of untalented ass-splatter. In fact, this was all preordained: I have been sent to you to drag you back to the Filth Ceremony where you will be the filth and fed to Ablathloton, the God of fungus, and your cock, if you have one, will be eaten by pigs. What are your thoughts on that?”
I stuck a commie poster/ propaganda pamphlet with amateur but still interesting art festooned all over it and probably drenched in typhus that a different vagabond, a fucking teen, handed me earlier, I jerked it to a halt under his nose said “…and speak into the rolled-up pamphlet if you will.”
He started walking sideways away from me mumbling “Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you…..” and he “fucked me” for ABOUT a half a block.
Cecily looked at me and said, “That was uncalled for.”
I said “It was not only called for it’s the only thing that actually works: a fearless and determined demonstration that they have a lot to learn about what crazy actually is.”
–J.J. Solari
from a to-be-announced memoir
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Where the fuck did this redhead come from? Bandit might be better off with a brunette. Sounds like all the Redheads keep him on the road instead at home where he can get some peace in life. Enjoyed reading about all the towns, freeways, and scenery, and important places between LA and Sturgis. Really enjoyed all the description and seeing Hal’s works.
–Ann Robinson
Long Beach, CA
THAT’S NOT ALL—I’m working on a Cantina Episode, a few bike features, and a girl feature. We are due to receive the last of the bikes today. I need to wrap up the news so I can jam over to the other digs. Shit is happening fast, everywhere. Hell, I could use a shower.
It’s incredible how handy tools come into play. I set up some torched in the Deadwood house and immediately needed them.
I need to reach out to Dan Stern about his feature. We have another notion we are playing with regarding Jack’s galleries. I’ll report this week.
In the meantime, ride free forever!
–Bandit
