Here are some nice rides I've taken. Here are my thought on life in general in this day and age from an old school biker who quit partying years ago and still amazed he lived through it all. Here come my thoughts and please feel free to comment back. Jimmy Bonz
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Boring Xmas decorations
Friday, December 12, 2008
Christian laws
Monday, December 8, 2008
Riding Free
The PSA was about the fact DUI laws apply to bikes as well as cars. Most people would have no objection with that. However since the announcement only mentioned an American made motorcycle, its specific sound and had a Harley revving in the background we found it highly objectionable. It appears the state of Connecticut is stereotyping Harley riders as drunks. I’m amazed HD hasn’t commented on it. Another form of stereotyping based on what you ride. Had it just said motorcyclists should remember that DUI laws apply to them there would be no issue. On the lighter side would you expect a fair, impartial intelligent PSA from the people who broadcast it in the middle of winter when the majority of bikes are put away for the season? Maybe the brain trust will run anti-drunk snowmobiling or sledding PSAs in July or August?
This would be a good cause for the CMRA to look into. Stereotyping a group of people based on their mode and brand of transportation. Sad part is that won’t happen anytime in the near future. This year depending on how the economic crisis plays out, how much of a smoke screen the politicians want out there to cover their ineptitude and incompetence they may try to push a helmet bill. If it comes about it will be hard fought battle. As it has been written before the CMRA is a victim of its own success, 25+ years without a helmet bill passing in this state. People have forgotten that it could still happen. Apathy has set in. People have forgotten the CMRA still needs your help. Support is definitely needed and I thank all of you who have remained members. Now that the kids are grown maybe you could step up your involvement a little. People are needed to fill all types of positions from making out flyers to setting up notification systems (to let people know of threats to their freedom) and everything in between. Please don’t be shy come down to a meeting, I’ve heard it put they are no worse than a root canal. I figure they’re about the same. In my mind the more you get involved with the CMRA the more you carry on a tradition that was started in 1776 the picking up and carrying the torch of freedom that has been handed down to every generation since. If you’re laughing at this think for a moment, all freedom whether it is the right for people to vote, live where they want anything and everything begins with personal freedom. If we as individuals don’t have freedom to ride how we want, how can America claim to be or stay free? I remember hearing that a federal politician once called “bikers the bastion of freedom” just because we stood up for our rights and freedom.
If you enjoy riding the way you want and have been a member thanks again for your support. If your buddy is sitting there enjoying his freedom yet not helping us he owes you. Tell him to put his money where his ride is and join the CMRA so the both of you can carry the torch. Remember the lifestyle you enjoy in the wind is threatened everyday by people wanting to control how and what you ride. Just say NO to them, join the CMRA.
Ride free
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Legalize Drugs
I say yes. I think it would greatly reduce the crime rate in this country. If you can buy your drug of choice for about the equivalent cost of a bottle of booze or a 6 pack what need do you have to steal. What was a $500-$1000 a day habit is now under $30. You can stay high all month on your welfare and/or social security check. Yes addicts would be given some sort of welfare, along with the option any time they chose to take it to enter a rehab that along with detoxing them would also provide education so that when they got out they were able to find jobs and become productive members of society. Burglaries, robberies and prostitution will plummet dramatically. No more drive by shootings by dealers protecting their turf.
Another major upside would be in taxes. Instead of pumping billions of tax dollars into a war we can’t win, we let the dealers set up legitimate stores the government sets the prices and profits then taxes the dealers. Paying the welfare to the addicts and letting them give the money for legal drugs seems strange at first glance. However no longer are we paying for incarcerating people for possession or sale of narcotics nor the crimes they needed to commit to get them. That’s a massive saving in police, court and jail costs. The welfare we would end up paying would be nowhere near these costs not to mention the cost to society as a whole with injuries the innocents as well insurance and legal claims. This again would keep more money in the taxpayer’s pocket.
Some will say absolutely not it will just make more addicts. However using that rationalization alcohol should be outlawed just as it was during prohibition because according to the above thinking it makes more alcoholics
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Why do we ned mariage?
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Saturday, November 8, 2008
Hairspray & Women
My friend's name remains a guarded secret to protect him.As far as I go I figure we could all use a good laugh. Hopefully the women will understand if they haven't used hairspray today.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Women = 2nd class
I don’t understand why the top 3 religions of the world, Islam, Christianity and Judaism keep women subjugated as 2nd class citizens completely subservient to men and women accept it. It makes no sense to me.
I would think that any creator would make all of one species equal within itself. I can’t believe a God or Creator or Higher Power (to cover all bases) would have created women given them intelligence, free will and different talents and abilities then man, just to make them servants of man. It doesn’t appear to be the work of a loving power.
Yet there was one religion/culture that said all were equal. Men and women had the exact same rights; to property to marriage to divorce everything was completely equal in their civilization. That religion/culture was the Celts who ruled what is now known as Europe until the Christians who apparently did not care for women being equal to men killed them off, stole their temples, lands and holidays and put into slavery and bondage women where they remain still today in the eyes of religions, second class citizens only there to serve men.
Since no one has ever come back from death to tell us women are second class servants, since when these religions were forming men were stronger, the hunter gatherer, protector and probably the ones who could write and record things so they just told women this is how it is to be. Women at that time couldn’t change it. Men wrote it down and it became “The Truth of Life”, and women accept it still today. What also makes me wonder is how Christian and Jewish women can decry the way they see women treated in Islam and not recognize the same subjugation their religions place on them.
Can anyone explain why we are not all equal in the eyes of a God?
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Darwin's Law
We have instituted safety laws that protect the stupid from themselves. Seatbelt, airbags, they are all good ideas. I don’t feel they should be mandatory. If someone is not smart enough to realize that texting, talking on a cell phone while driving, along with putting on make –up reading the newspaper, programming a GPS device or doing other distracting things while they are suppose to be controlling a steel weapon weighing thousands of pounds at high speeds they probably won’t be smart enough to utilize the safety devices. When they crash and burn they are just proving Darwin’s theory. If they crash into the more intelligent people the intelligent ones will be utilizing the safety devices even more confirmation of the theory. If they run into people of their caliber who are not utilizing the devices again no loss it just re-confirms the theory and leaves more air, water and food for the rest of us. So help protect yourself and your loved ones if you feel you are in the fittest category help repeal these laws that are hastening the end of the world.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Love vs Like
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Fat Kids & Adults
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Saturday, July 26, 2008
4 day work week for government?
Friday, July 25, 2008
Motorcycle Manners and Dress Code
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Cell phone morons
Why do people need to talk while they are driving, shopping, eating or just walking? Are you really that important? Or do you just hang with a bunch of losers who call each other all the time to make each other feel important? Get some lives and maybe some day you actually may do something decent for humanity. Oh and lets not forget Mr. & Ms business person you are such a multitasker that you probably need the phone to look at pictures of your kids and spouse and need the name that goes with it, is your tombstone going to be in the shape of laptop or blackberry and the coffin that of a cell phone. Epitaph 'I didn't spend enough time at work'.
You need a life too. When was the last time you did something that really on a human personal level helped someone? You probably don't have a clue what a human personal level is unless you can Google it so my question is pretty much worthless.
Some medical studies are now showing that close prolonged exposure to the rays coming off a cell phone cause brain cancer. Maybe you should have to be over 18 to use one just like cigarettes or maybe 21 like booze? Then again I'm not sure how they could prove this causes brain cancer because in my mind anyone with a brain and using it would not talk on a phone the amount of time needed to get the cancer.
To all you who feel as I do let's help suppress this disease, when you see someone talking on the cell phone driving a car, blow your horn at them, in a restaurant or store ask them to put it on speaker so you can hear both sides of the conversation. Most important contact your elected officials and have them ban cell phone use by people under 18 or 21 until they prove that the use of a cell phone doesn't cause cancer. We know it causes atrophy of human personal relationships. Insurance companies are now finding out how many accidents are caused by drivers talking on the cell phone hands free or otherwise and with the money they're paying out those laws will change soon.
In your wondering, yes I do have a cell phone it's prepaid and I carry it in my car and on my bike and use it very sparingly, I had 300 minutes on it at the end of January and still have over 200 left.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
There should be a law
I think that should be illegal. If you are past the age of reason and have what passes for normal intelligence these days and you don't know how to survive in different temperatures that's your problem. In my mind you're stupid and we don't need your DNA in the gene pool if we want the human species to survive. Based on that the media should not be allowed to help keep you alive. Even little kids or people with mental handicaps realize that when it's cold dress warmer, when it's hot dress cooler and when you get thirsty drink. If a "normal" person can't figure that out or they want to be so stylish in how the dress or act that they die because of it, oh well they'll be a stylish corpse. The gene pool will be better of with out them and there will be one less carbon footprint to waste oxygen and water on.
Jimmy Bonz
Sunday, June 8, 2008
The Demise of the United States of America
4 years ago Saddam Hussien ruled Iraq he was selling oil at $19 a barrel everything in the world was proceeding in what was normal fashion. Then Bush and Cheney were "re-elected" some say they were given the election because Bush's brother was Governor of FL the state who's recount gave the election to Bush and Cheney.
Bush had a problem with Saddam Hussien since back around 1990 when Saddam kicked daddy Bush's ass in the first gulf war it was now payback time. Bush had no problem enlisting the help of Cheney, they were both oil men and their other oil friends didn't like Saddam either because he sold oil too cheap.
The Bush Cheney administration declares that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction (never proved) then send in the US military, capture Saddam execute him and turn the oil fields over to their friends. In 4 year oil is hovering around $130 per barrel heating oil and gas are over $4. per gal from under $1. for heating oil and maybe about $1.25 for gas 4 years ago. Why is the US not getting the Iraq oil for free since we are giving them billions in aid per month not counting the 4000+ American lives lost and the 100,000+ American lives ruined. Thanks Bush and Cheney in any other country you would have been impeached and tried for treason. I can't find a valid reason it hasn't happened. I can only hope who ever is elected in November remembers their responsibility is to the USA not oil companies, multinational corporations, or other countries but America over and above all others.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Chlorinate the Gene Pool
Jimmy Bonz
Friday, April 11, 2008
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Let me start by saying I'm not any type of medical professional nor am I associated in any way with the practice of neither medicine nor psychology.
I am simply an observer of life and I do my best to look at things in the simplest manner or as I was taught in grammar school math to reduce things to the lowest common denominator.
With all this in mind my view on the above mentioned disorder is that it does exist , medication may help alleviate some of the symptoms but to have the disorder go into a remission (for want of a better term) you would need specialized therapy probably inpatient for a period of time. This suggestion is based on what I feel is the cause of the disorder and that is television, the computer and now other readily accessible form of electronic stimuli.
How does this electronic stimulus cause ADD you're wondering, quite simple really?
As I describe my theory please take into account I will be using simple layman's terms.
The human brain has many complex connections in it and for it to function in what is considered a normal manner they all must be properly aligned and connected to each other. This alignment/connection takes place during childhood. This is when I feel we develop our attention span.
My analogy of this time period is that of the molding of jello. You mix your jello, (this is the part of the brain that aligns and connects all the brains sensors) then you let it stay still until its form solidifies. This is what is not happening to people with ADD, their brains are not allowed the time to form properly what I perceive to be a traumatic brain injury prior to the brain being fully formed. I feel if you were to study this disorder you would discover that the percentage of people with it has increased since the advent of TV and the two working parent household.
Still confused on how this causes ADD. Again it's simple, prior to the two working parent household and the use of the TV as an electronic babysitter, children were read to, they played games inside and outside, they developed an attention span by playing hide and seek, doing puzzles, drawing and other activities of that sort that required concentration for extended periods of time, 15 minutes or longer. At the same time this was helping them develop an imagination of their own. Enter the electronic babysitter, the TV and computer. Both parents are now working and multitasking to give themselves and their children the best things money can buy when actually the best for the child would be a parent there. Because of this the parents no longer take or have the time to read, play, or just be with and listen to their children. The child is plopped down in front of the TV or computer where the electronic images or stimuli change every 15 seconds to 30 seconds, in my analogy of the jello this is akin to constantly shaking the jello mold as it solidifies. Picture that if you will, a bowl of jello that instead of begin smooth, is as jagged and turbulent as the ocean in a hurricane. I feel the same happens to the receptors and sensors in a child's brain they are not given the time they need to properly form or connect. In addition when the longest sustained attention time a forming brain is exposed to over and over again is 60 seconds or less how could you expect this person to have any longer attention span as they age. Their brain would require re-training or wiring or an additional layer of jello on it that is allowed the time to form properly. This is why I feel an inpatient time maybe required.
The sad fact of this is that I feel for the most part this disorder could be prevented if parents took a little more time with their children and allowed them to develop as nature intended not as a fast paced materialistic society feels they should. Remember we reap what we sow. These children will be running the world someday and taking care of us in our old age scary isn't it.
I don't expect the medical profession to agree with this since treatment possibly would entail actual hands on treatment not just 'here's your drugs call me tomorrow', also it is a simple diagnosis for the disorder made by a lay person and to justify their degrees and costs they complicate everything. Parents for the most part probably won't agree since it would mean they need to take responsibility for their actions or lack of action as a parent. That's OK I leave to you the reader to use your own mind and decide if this theory has merit and should be looked into. Remember you have a mind of your own use it. What they tell you in advertisements and the media is what they want you to think which is not necessarily right or correct for you but it keeps them in control and makes them money.
Jimmy Bonz
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Lowes Home Improvement
However right is right and fair is fair and when they do something decent and customer friendly they should be acknowledged for doing such.
A year ago in March I purchased a quantity of laminate flooring. Do to life and the interesting things that happen to you as your living it I wasn't able to install it until this March, or at least try to install it.
This floor would not go together. A friend of mine who builds barns was helping me install it and we had trouble getting the pieces to interlock and when they did and you walked on them 1/2 of them unlocked. We tried for about 5 hours on a Sat, I tried by myself most of the day Sunday the floor was worthless I couldn't get it to work.
On Monday I called Lowes and explained the situation. They told me a manager from the store I bought it at would contact me in 24 hours. Yeah sure, OK I'll wait. You know it happened. Eric from the Wallingford CT store called me. Again I explained the situation and the time frame a year had just about past. I expected to be blown off ignored told forget it it was to late. That didn't happen Eric was very professional he asked questions told me I had to find the receipt so he could give me credit. I was astounded. I dug out the receipt brought it down to him, he did his paper work a Lowes truck came to my house picked up all the flooring and padding as well as tools for a full credit. They then delivered the new hard wood and tile floor, (no more laminate).
I had heard they stand behind their products but I didn't expect it to this extent. Eric and the others I met, the men who picked up the old floor and those who delivered the new, the people at the courtesy desk were all professional, helpful and courteous a credit to Lowes. Based on this experience I would recommend Lowes to anyone.
Jimmy Bonz
Monday, April 7, 2008
Out of the World Radio Foul Mouth Radio
What talent does it take to swear and call people names, and discuss bodily functions in gutter terms? None as far as I concerned. Go to any low life establishment and you'll find this talk, it's nothing more then a bunch of emotionally stunted people who have no idea how to express themselves as decent functioning human beings. Apparently in order to fool their own minds into thinking they are normal they elected this Howard Stern person king of the brain dead and his behavior justifies theirs and makes it OK.
Let's get one thing straight, I swear, I know all the words, how to spell them and what they mean but unlike the foul mouths I use them sparingly and at appropriate times like when you slam your finger with a hammer, your wife just wrecks the car again, times like that. They can also be used in comedy ask George Carlin for his list. What's the difference between what is on that radio and a comic using the same words in a routine. Simple, most comics are intelligent people who use the words sparingly to emphasize a point or punch line very few curse every other or every third word. Most of the best comics rarely swear because they know as I was taught vulgarity is the last resort of a small mind. People who can think and express themselves intelligently do so. Those who can't, resort to vulgarities, trash talking, attempting to put people down to feel bigger themselves and label it 'humor' and surround themselves with others of low intelligence, low self esteem and huge egos and try to make others look foolish for not liking their behavior. And we just look at them shake our heads and give thanks we can think.
Jimmy Bonz