A group of us hit this biker bar after lunch. Tiniest damned bar I’ve ever been at, but on the weekends, it serves hundreds of bikers. I guess Friday afternoon is not considered weekend. 11 of us make the 340 mile round trip.

Well, I sit here waiting for the new realtor to stop by and Nina and I will sign the contracts to put this place on the market, again. Different person, same agency. This new guy is their business specialist. The company, Keller Williams is the best in the area. We’ll see what happens this time.

https://youtu.be/NxqTzBDNaCo

https://youtu.be/Al3tRlzOREg

The video is pretty self-explanatory about why United should be boycotted.

In 1991, at the end of Desert Storm, a 19 yr. old US Army Cavalry Scout Private who had just spent 8 months at war sat out on a street at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia.

He sat there on his duffle bag with his Battalion around him for 4 days waiting for the buses to come and take him to the King Fahad Airport so he could go home.

Unfortunately, the politicians of the day never planned for how to bring so many soldiers home after the war ended so there was a shortage of planes. Politicians are great at talking, but terrible at doing.

Finally, the buses came, and took the young man to the airport. The planes waiting were from Tower Air. The owner of Tower Air had volunteered his planes and staff to bring soldiers home for the cost of fuel only.

Happily, the young veteran got home just in time for Easter weekend in 1991, and spent that time emotionally healing with friends and family surrounding him.

That Private was me.

The Airline owner – Donald J Trump.

Written by Ron Knouse

He’s done so many good things you never hear about. They love to rip him up.

• Tori counting the money I gave her in exchange for 4 $20 bill.
• DJ sitting on the bottom shelf of a cart, playing video games.
• Getting clocked @ 120 m.p.h and knowing he can’t turn around!
• Making it home in 25 minutes instead of 40 minutes. Poor cop.
• Getting treated like Norm from Cheers @ Santa Fe Harley.
• Riding my old bike during a service and knowing I made the right move in trading up.
• Hearing one of the best riders I know, a professional bike racer, telling a room full of people that I’m a damned good rider.
• Knowing I’m going shooting tomorrow morning with a group of people and knowing I get to tell them what to do.
• Thinking about my upcoming ride to Michigan to see Mom next month.
• Riding home on a clean bike after getting it serviced.
• Spaghetti for lunch! It was very good and homemade @ Harley.
• Nina.
• Tori.
• Andy.
• Erin. (She went to Belle’s this weekend, and immediately got an earache. When her father picked her up, the earache was gone! She doesn’t like going to her other grandmother’s and THAT MAKES ME SMILE A LOT!)
• That’s it for now.

SOMETHING THAT DID
NOT MAKE ME SMILE!

I got to Harley today and my bike sounded like an old tractor when I took my helmet off. I thought, “This doesn’t sound right!”  The store owner walked by about the same time and he said, “This doesn’t sound right!” I said, “No shit!” He said,  “Bring it into service and have them jump on it so we can get you out of here so you can ride.” So I did. Two hours later I was on the road again with a new set of headers on my bike. I had to pay for it since it was a weekend and aftermarket can’t be warranted on weekends, but I’ll get the money back.

It broke right at the crossover weld. Service said that I should get all my money refunded since it’s an obvious flaw. The service I got did make me smile though. Place in the front of everyone, a loaner bike, great lunch, and having out at SFHD can’t really be considered a bad day.

Peace

Some things that are most telling. At first glance this may seem like a trivial story but what lies hidden beneath it could have serious consequences for our children
and grandchildren.
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In Switzerland it has long been customary for students to shake the hands of their teachers at the beginning and end of the school day. It’s a sign of solidarity and mutual respect
between teacher and pupil, one that is thought to encourage the right classroom atmosphere. Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga recently felt compelled to further explain that shaking hands was part of Swiss culture and daily life.

And the reason she felt compelled to speak out about the handshake is that two Muslim brothers, aged 14 and 15, who have lived in Switzerland for several years (and thus are familiar
with its mores), in the town of Therwil, near Basel, refused to shake the hands of their teacher, a woman, because, they claimed, this would violate Muslim teachings that contact with the opposite sex is allowed only with family members.

At first the school authorities decided to avoid trouble, and initially granted the boys an exemption from having to shake the hand of any female teacher. But an uproar followed, as Mayor Reto Wolf explained to the BBC: “The community was unhappy with the decision taken by the school. In our culture and in our way of communication a handshake is normal and sends out respect for the other person, and this has to be brought home to the children in school.”

Therwil’s Educational Department reversed the school’s decision, explaining in a statement on May 25 that the school’s exemption was lifted because “the public interest with respect to equality between men and women and the integration of foreigners significantly outweighs the freedom of religion.” It added that a teacher has the right to demand a handshake. Furthermore, if the students refused to shake hands again “the sanctions called
for by law will be applied,” which included a possible fine of up to 5,000 dollars.

This uproar in Switzerland, where many people were enraged at the original exemption granted to the Muslim boys, did not end after that exemption was itself overturned by the local Educational
Department. The Swiss understood quite clearly that this was more than a little quarrel over handshakes; it was a fight over whether the Swiss would be masters in their own house, or whether they would be forced to yield, by the granting of special treatment, to the Islamic view of the proper relations between the sexes. It is one battle – small but to the Swiss significant – between overweaning Muslim immigrants and the indigenous Swiss.

Naturally, once the exemption was withdrawn, all hell broke loose among Muslims in Switzerland. The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland, instead of yielding quietly to the Swiss decision to uphold the handshaking custom, criticized the ruling in hysterical terms, claiming that the enforcement of the handshaking is “totalitarian” (!) because its intent is to “forbid religious people from meeting their obligations to God.”

That, of course, was never the “intent” of the long-standing handshaking custom, which was a nearly-universal custom in Switzerland, and in schools had to do only with encouraging the
right classroom atmosphere of mutual respect between instructor and pupil, of which the handshake was one aspect.

The Swiss formulation of the problem – weighing competing claims — will be familiar to Americans versed in Constitutional adjudication. In this case “the public interest with respect to equality” of the sexes and the “integration of foreigners” (who are expected to adopt Swiss ways, not force the Swiss to exempt them
from some of those ways) were weighed against the “religious obligations to God” of Muslims, and the former interests found to outweigh the latter.

What this case shows is that even at the smallest and seemingly inconsequential level, Muslims are challenging the laws and customs of the ‘infidels’ among whom they have been allowed to settle [i.e., stealth jihad toward sharia dominance]. Each little victory, or defeat, will determine whether Muslims will truly integrate into a Western society or, instead, refashion that society to meet Muslim requirements.

The handshake has been upheld and, what’s more, a stiff fine now will be imposed on those who continue to refuse to shake hands with a female teacher. This is a heartening sign of non-surrender by the Swiss. But the challenges of the Muslims within Europe to the laws and customs of the indiginous have no logical end and will not stop.

And the greater the number of Muslims allowed to settle in Europe, the stronger and more frequent their challenges will be. They are attempting not to integrate, but rather to create, for now, a second, parallel society, and eventually, through sheer force of numbers from both migration and by outbreeding the infidels, to fashion not a parallel society but one society — now dominated by Muslim sharia.

The Swiss handshaking dispute has received some, but not enough, press attention. Presumably, it’s deemed too inconsequential a matter to bother with. But the Swiss know better. And so should we.

There’s an old Scottish saying that in one variant reads: “Many a little makes a mickle.” That is, the accumulation of many little things leads to one big thing. That’s what’s happening in Europe today. This was one victory for the side of sanity. There will need to be a great many more.

The Supreme Court of the United States just sided with President Trump in a landmark case the mainstream media hasn’t been reporting on.

On behalf of Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education, Trump’s legal team has petitioned the court to make America safer, starting with our children.

In a 5-3 decision that wasn’t a difficult interpretation of the constitution, the high court ruled that public schools in this country will NOT teach the tenets of Islam or Sharia law.

Students will learn about Islam in history, as they do Christianity and all other religions, only as it pertains to the time period they are studying.

This rolls back an Obama regulation that forced children to learn about the “peaceful” religion of Islam so they would be more tolerant of terrorists.

The age of indoctrination is over.