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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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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.
"People like truth, it gives us a fucking benchmark." - dakmar
BTW, I've missed you all too, and I hope you understand. I just had to actively avoid even seeing pictures of smirk and snarl. I am beyond profoundly even of being sick with rage anger and hatred at those who hate America so much they consider conducting war crimes as supporting our troops.
That picture is giving my family fits, cut that out Mr President!
"People like truth, it gives us a fucking benchmark." - dakmar
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.
The Honda CB750 was a stroke of genius. "Practical" was never a consideration to die-hard enthusiasts.
"People like truth, it gives us a fucking benchmark." - dakmar
Yup. He may of saved this pig's bacon; but in my heart I wwill always know the chimp as having been cheated from winning a richly deserved Darwin award.
That Honda is indeed one of my favorites. I was going to buy a Honda but I test drive them all back them -- I was in a Special Forces National Guard unit awaiting a slot to the qualification course at the time -- but this bike caught my fancy. My brother thinks I am insane having had it repainted stock, but it is a rarer model then most, and I always take scarceness of a model in consideration when rebuilding. I always hang onto things, and I would un-mothball my Suzuki 500 Titan two- stroke twin too if it didn't always get stopped because the cops are un-used to that horrible loud noise a two stroke makes. I actually rode that bike across Canada in 1976. It was first sold in 1968 and no changes were made to it until 1976, the last year the Titan was made. It has a steering dampener, steel forks, drum brakes, and it a totally dinosauristic design. I'll always keep it.
Yeah, I'd like to punch Foose and Coddington square in the face when they cut up pieces of history.
"People like truth, it gives us a fucking benchmark." - dakmar
hey Mike, great to see you back. you were missed!
You were gone? I knew something wasn't right around this joint.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
How nice to see you back, ferret...........not long ago I asked chrissie if she had any idea what happened to ya; alas, she didn't. Sort of figured you might have been hauled off to one of them concentration camps, or torture chambers, or some such.....or hell, even tree sitting! Regardless....welcome home.
Damn!
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I understand completely. One of our best friends has gone completely off-line for two years now. Hoping that you can hang in here and post your news, thoughts, and insights without hurling. Cheers out there.
And that Mike, is a good thing. If God would give me a promise I would have a BMW 750 and a Kawasaki 650 enduro.
I clearly remember a man, showing off, wheelie then fly that bike over his head. How he wasn't seriously hurt I'll never know. I was 15, and have always been conservative towards bikes. Breaking my foot on one and picking up my cousin (Kawasaki 500) on the asphalt, who died that night did it for me. Dirt bikes down isolated trails sound fun....
Vincent page. They were using engine block as structural member since very early post-war period.
"People like truth, it gives us a fucking benchmark." - dakmar
This is very true, the reason for this was a steel shortage at the time. What is also true is many of the motorcycles of that period had better quality steel in the frames the the Harleys of the same period. I do like Vincent motorcycles. Even Hunter Thompson raved about the Black Shadow in his 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' classic.
The Suzuki 500 Titan was a very reliable bike, but the unkillable two stroke engine that can withstand periods of forgetting two stroke oil or emergency use of thirty weight engine oil developed only 26 horse power. A Kawasaki 400 of the same period develops more horse power and is much faster. I approach motorcycles from the bicyclist perspective and prefer a smaller displacement machine that is more agile then fast with allot of top end. I am far more likely to be found nosing a mid displacement metric cycle up tenuous mountain logging roads or exploring the remote nooks and crannies of an area then blasting down the road on a machine designed to go toe to toe with automobiles on their turf. I get passed more then I pass, and when in doubt I wait for the other guy instead of trying to get out in front of them. I mean, the last two cars I owned were Volkswagen Super Beetles. One does not relish slug bugs and their air cooled 1600 cc engined ways if one is hell on wheels. ;-)
#2. To: lodwick (#1)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#3. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
#4. To: lodwick (#1)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#5. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#6. To: Dakmar (#3)
(Edited)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#7. To: Ferret Mike (#6)
I have had Harleys and even have a re-built Panhead engine in storage. But my heart belongs to the mid sized bikes.
#8. To: Dakmar (#5)
"That picture is giving my family fits, cut that out Mr President!"
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#9. To: Dakmar (#7)
(Edited)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#10. To: Ferret Mike (#9)
My brother thinks I am insane having had it repainted stock, but it is a rarer model then most, and I always take scarceness of a model in consideration when rebuilding.
#11. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
#12. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
I had to get away
#13. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
#14. To: Ferret Mike (#0)
#15. To: Ferret Mike (#4)
I just had to actively avoid even seeing pictures of smirk and snarl.
#16. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
However, I am driving far more conservatively and carefully then I did before the machine was mothballed by me in the mid nineties.
#17. To: Ferret Mike (#9)
my Suzuki 500 Titan two- stroke twin too if it didn't always get stopped
#18. To: tom007, Ferret Mike (#16)
#19. To: Dakmar (#18)
"They were using engine block as structural member since very early post-war period."
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
#20. To: tom007 (#17)
Captain Paul Watson
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
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