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Title: Plug it in, fire it up, Mr. President (Idiot saves Bush from self-immolation)
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URL Source: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dl ... 20070407/AUTO01/704070338/1148
Published: Apr 7, 2007
Author: staff
Post Date: 2007-04-07 18:43:36 by Ferret Mike
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Views: 186
Comments: 20
(Story photo modified for your viewing pleasure) Credit Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally with saving the leader of the free world from self-immolation. Mulally told journalists at the New York auto show that he intervened to prevent President Bush from plugging an electrical cord into the hydrogen tank of Ford's hydrogen-electric plug-in hybrid at the White House last week. Ford wanted to give the Commander-in-Chief an actual demonstration of the innovative vehicle, so the automaker arranged for an electrical outlet to be installed on the South Lawn and ran a charging cord to the hybrid. However, as Mulally followed Bush out to the car, he noticed someone had left the cord lying at the rear of the vehicle, near the fuel tank. "I just thought, 'Oh my goodness!' So, I started walking faster, and the President walked faster and he got to the cord before I did. I violated all the protocols. I touched the President. I grabbed his arm and I moved him up to the front," Mulally said. "I wanted the president to make sure he plugged into the electricity, not into the hydrogen This is all off the record, right?"
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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
Just damn. Good to see you back here, Mike.
Thanks, I had to get away from the 'news' for a while. I was getting sick from the anger and stress. I finished overhauling my old Yamaha Virago and have been cheating on my bicycles. I've been motorcycling around the state. In fact I drive to the Oregon Coast from Eugene yesterday and hiked around Cape Perpetua. The bike runs better then it ever did as I've added performance oriented parts to the engine. However, I am driving far more conservatively and carefully then I did before the machine was mothballed by me in the mid nineties. My sense of mortality and other aspects of self are different then they were then.
Yamaha Virago? Is that one of those big heavy cruisers? Or did you strip all the junk off it? Welcome back.
It is one of the Viragos that has the engine as part of the frame under a steel backbone. My 1983 Virago 500 looks exactly like this, except I have the smaller 'spitfire' windscreen on her. 1983 was the only year the 500 was sold in the U.S. the 535 Virago with a larger gas tank replaced it as the Honda of the time was kicking the Virago 500's ass in sales in that era. I have had Harleys and even have a re-built Panhead engine in storage. But my heart belongs to the mid sized bikes.
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
The Honda CB750 was a stroke of genius. "Practical" was never a consideration to die-hard enthusiasts.
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#6. To: Dakmar (#3)
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Replies to Comment # 6. I have had Harleys and even have a re-built Panhead engine in storage. But my heart belongs to the mid sized bikes.
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