AND to my knowledge not one has had a private sector job….Think about that.
Posts by SoCal
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As long as it is Fast Metallic Gray it will be the best purchase you ever made?
WELCOME!
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You're one of those "lucky souls" that I mentioned.
Looks like we're having a brown Christmas. My wife puts a palm tree Christmas tree ornament in the window every year. She has a niece and nephew in California and we have a son and grand daughters in Florida. None of us will have snow for Christmas this year.
openair as I have mentioned prior - I grew up in New Hampshire then Louisiana. I am FULLY aware of Cold and heat and humidity! I went to school in CA and once here made a point of coming back. Our state government is a mess but the location for riding is beyond words. I would argue that we here have some of the best riding locations anywhere and the weather to go do it.
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This seems like such a no brainer but I think I just had an epiphany. Pardon me if I
am slow to realize this….
MAGA is just that. ALL America and Americans. Not good for us and not for you. All.
That is why Washington is in such a lather over Trump. There are great amounts of money to be made with devision. Just ask Al Sharpton or Jessy Jackson. Or the military industrial complex. War is the biggest business around. Keeping people pissed off at each other is big business.
When we ( the USA and that is ALL the USA) goes to work each day, we work along side of people with all different "everything”. But we all have this in common - we are at work.
Good trade deals mean jobs HERE. NO wars mean no one is dying or spending money on
bullets and such. A great economy and safety are things ALL AMERICANS can rally around and should and are.
DT has pulled his own coup de tat’. Who’d of thought the Unions would be so quiet now in an election year. Perhaps shops are opening not shuttered? DT has brought the American people together if you think about it. It is not the republican or democratic party with Trump, it is the Country! We are ALL doing better because of him and THAT is what is pissing Washington peddlers of division off.
Doesn’t matter what party you are affiliated with, having a job, safety, and a future and a few bucks in the bank - who doesn’t want that? DT has delivered and is delivering!
The swamp hates that - and him for doing it!
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Or wait.... maybe everything is going so well because Congress hasn’t done anything for 3 years. Might be on to something here 🤔
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And it's used to clean lots of different things. I candy factories they use white sugar to clean the lines between different flavor of candy. My father used to buy the sugar that was used to clean the lines and water it down a little and feed the honey bees early in the Spring to get them moving a little faster. We had about a 100 hives of honey bees.
Country boy can survive!🤠
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File under helpful hints.
I saw in one of those "get ready for winter" articles that spraying RainX on your mud flaps will keep the snow and slush from building up.
Same article (and my neighbor) say to spray the entire working area of your snowblower for the same reason.
So, I bought a new bottle of the stuff today and sprayed my RAV4 and my snow blower.
We'll see.
For those of you who do not need a snow blower and/or never get slush buildup on you mud flaps . . . well, aren't you just the luckiest souls?!?!?!?!?
I sprayed California all over mine seems to work like a charm 😜
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Display Morejust for fun I was just looking at my owners manual to see what it says about the fuel gauge and the low fuel light and this is what I found:
Fuel Gauge Display - The segments of the fuel gauge show the level of fuel in the fuel tank. When the last segment clears, a low fuel warning is activated. All segments including the fuel icon will flash. Refuel immediately.
Low Fuel - This lamp illuminates when approximately one gallon (3.8 liters) of fuel remains in the fuel tank.
Capacities: Fuel 9.8 gallons (37.1 l) Fuel Remaining at “Empty” on Gauge Approximately 1.0 gallon (3.8 l)
So my gauge has 8 bars and when they are done I should have 1 gallon left - with a 9.8 gallon tank that would imply that each bar is roughly equal to 1.1 gallons
Where to go Ed! The only difference between your gas gauge my gas gauge is when mine starts blinking it resonates scorn from the passenger seat 😜
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Display MoreWondering if there are any other independents on here and if they see this thing the same as I do. I'll preface this with the fact that there are parts of each party (republican, democrat, and libertarian) platforms that I can get behind and other parts that I cannot, but generally I'm probably more right leaning than left. I fully believe that President Trump wanted the Ukrainian Government to announce they were investigating the Biden's actions during the President Obama's term in office to use against Joe Biden in his campaign efforts. I have no doubt that any politician would do the same if they felt it would help their campaign. I do not think asking someone to announce something that hurts your political foe makes you a foreign agent for that country. My gut says this is a two birds with one stone situation and can imagine that if I was President and I could do something that supported my foreign policy agenda and helped my campaign at the same time that would be a win-win. My gut also says that President Trump would have never actually pursued an investigation on Joe Biden based on the fact that he has not initiated any investigations into the Hillary Clinton campaign actions other than his bravado in speeches which excites his political supporters, but does no real damage to her or other democratic leaders. It appears to me that he does things to win the political game and actually doesn't want to hurt his opponents (to use a football analogy he wants to hit them hard enough to make them fumble the ball, but doesn't want them taken off on a stretcher).
I understand that nothing at that level of business, politics, etc is black and white and that people that operate in the gray spectrum at that level will seek to gain every advantage available to them as long as it doesn't cross too far over a line. I fully believe that the President Obama administration crossed that line and used the power of the FBI and DOJ to launch an investigation into the Trump campaign and the personnel associated with it to prevent him from winning the election. Their actions have done serious damage to the lives, reputations, and finances of innocent American Citizens in that quest. To the best of my memory the investigation into the Trump campaign has uncovered illegal acts by some, but none were linked to direct campaign actions or involved being an agent for a foreign government. The others that got found out for their extracurricular activities that crossed the legal lines deserve what they got, but it still worries me that they weren't investigated for those actions prior to joining the campaign effort. I am afraid of where this might go in the future when allegiance to the political party is more important than allegiance to the nation and the lines that those people are willing to cross moves more and more to the extreme.
When I compare those two actions of the Obama and Trump Administrations it looks like President Trump asking the leader of another country to do something that is based on fact (Biden's actions were suspect by any measure of analysis) and helps his campaign efforts pales in comparison to the Obama administration conducting investigations on American Citizens that it appears they knew were innocent of the charges to further their political agendas.
There is very little an innocent citizen can do when facing the might, power, and resources of the US Government. From my viewpoint the worst that the Ukrainian announcement would have done would have been that Joe Biden doesn't win the nomination and goes back to what ever he was doing the day before he announced he was going to run for President. He likely would not be facing a prison sentence, living with a damaged reputation, or experiencing long term financial ruin. I really believe that what the Trump administration did was not very significant in terms of what seems to go on behind the scenes at the national level of political campaigning everyday.
While I believe it was wrong for President Trump to mix his presidential duties and his campaign actions, I am not naive enough to think it is the first time that things like this have happened in Washington DC at that level of governance. The fact that the Obama Administration leveraged the FBI and DOJ against the Trump campaign and that prominent democrat leaders were working towards impeachment as soon as Trump completed the inauguration ceremony makes it hard for me to believe that impeachment was the proper action in this case and not a continuation of using significant Government capabilities (FBI, DOJ, Congressional Impeachment) as political tools against your opposing party. I have hoped that the moderates from the democratic party would learn from the President Clinton impeachment and not pursue that as a course of action if it was a purely partisan act. I believe this whole situation has further eroded the standards of working with people with views different than yours that allowed for the civil governance of the nation by the elected officials from the political parties. I am very afraid that they have set a new standard for how the parties will deal with each other from now on.
Beautifully analytical and well said! I think just about everybody can find common ground in what you said. I believe the Democrats did not just have their hand in the cookie jar they were in the cookie jar and when you’re cornered you do anything.
Political science classes will be chewing on this for many decades to come.
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Poor Dem’s just can’t catch a break😎
Winning winning winning winning not getting tired of winning 😜
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I have ridden two wheelers since I was 14. My first two wheeler was a Cushman Eagle. I've had so many brands of motorcycles that I cannot remember them all. I had 4 Kawasaki Vulcans the last one being a 2009 1700cc Nomad which I rode for 60,000 miles which I traded for my first three wheeler a 2012 Can Am. Which I didn't like. (no leaning in turns) Like driving a car. Got rid of it in 2013. Did not ride again until a test drive in a 2018 Slingshot. Was sold immediately I purchased it on the spot. Ordered a top for it and after waiting for over 2 months for the top I canceled the order and visited my dealership to purchase a Slingshade. The salesman talked me into trading for a 2019 Grand Touring model with a Top. I have no regrets. I love my Grand Tourer. And by the way I turned 83 my last Birthday in November. And I am a Trump supporter and proud of it.
Giving us/me all hope canegrinder!
Keep Slingin’!
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Love him or hate him Trump is a fighter and to the best of his ability will take no prisoners. He is showing the Republicans how to do it and hopefully they’re paying attention. Never once did I envision him as being president however I’ve been praying for a long time for someone, anyone to get in the game.
Make no mistake about it this presidency and this time will go down in history as a formidable moment. For better or worse we will be able to say we were there.
At the end of the day what would you rather? A bombastic egotistical flamboyant president that gets phenomenal results that are incredibly positive for every American or people that have promised you everything for 50 years and have only delivered policies of servitude and domination over your freedoms?
I don’t care to be friends with Donald Trump but I’m damn glad he’s our president right now!
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I believe this is what we are dealing with in DC now.
I do believe ol' Ron White said it best..
"Ya can't fix stupid"
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I agree. Your vision is your limit. Hell, I've heard of guys putting a fourth wheel on a Slingshot!
NO! Say it ain't so!
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Old age catches up to all of us. At least we got here and still standing up.
Who among us ever expected the SS to come along??? I sure didn't. I remember in the back of my mind lamenting the day I would have to put up the Bike. I need to get busy letting mine go so someone else can enjoy her. Riding since 17 it is hard to do.
What an unexpected pleasure the SS is for all of us!
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2003 HD Dyna Super Glide and Yamaha dual sport 250; sold both when I got the slingshot
my old girl is up for sale now as we speak 😞
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It is still in the playroom with maybe 500 miles in the past two years 2013 Softail Slim and the second battery in that time with a battery tender hooked up
I see a pattern developing here ...
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...still in my garage somewhere lol ....if it could talk is will probably ask " Why am I still Here , you don't ride me any longer"
TOTALLY understand!
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1950 Mercury???
Cool likes to be next to cool.
Just be thankful you didn’t need the “blue” zone!🙂
