Nice ride today with Nina on the bike. Just under 300 miles of no destination riding. Actually turned around in Cimarron NM to head home.

STOP TRASHING OBAMA  by COL. ROBERT F. CUNNINGHAM and PATRICK RISHOR, The Gilmer Mirror

Quit trashing Obama’s accomplishments.   He has done more than any other President before him.  Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:

 First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States .

First President to violate the War Powers Act.

First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico .

First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.

First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S. , including those with criminal convictions.

First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

First President to terminate America ’s ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.

First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.

First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.

First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.

First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.

First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states ( Mexico vs Arizona ).

First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”

Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.  (Thank God he didn’t get away with THIS one.)

How is this hope and change’ working out for you?

• Wow, it’s August already.
• Had lunch with Dennis, Joe, Steven, and Catherine today.
• We had a good time. Nina refused to join us.
• I guess someone has to be responsible.
• More rain predicted for today.
• They actually predict rain all the way thru Wednesday.
• While it cuts into my riding time, we are glad to get it.

 

We’ve got saturated ground now and people are now complaining about too much rain. I swear, you can’t make them happy no matter what the situation. I can see people in certain areas bitching, but here we’ve had less than an inch of rain. Mosquero had 4.91 inches a few days back. Complain about that and I’ll sympathize, but less than an inch?

Anyway, if this keeps up we should be hearing less about droughts for a while.

A woman was playing golf  when she took a big swing and fell.

The party waiting behind her was a group from   Washington , DC that included Barack  Obama.

Barack quickly stepped forward and helped her to her  feet.

She thanked him and started to leave, when he said,  “I’m Barack Obama and I hope you’ll vote Democratic in the next  election.

She laughed and quickly said, “I fell on my ass, not my head.”

• Seven hours of my life I’ll never get back.
• 4 hours of driving and 3 hours of meeting.
• Good info at the meeting, but it could have been given out via a Skype session in about an hour.
• It was a very social group. All they did was talk like a bunch of ladies, which most of them were.
• I knew one of them from the marketing committee I’m on.
• Road rage incident on the way home, but I calmed down before I killed someone.
• I left there with acid reflex. It took 5 Zantac & 4 Tums for me to become almost human.
• I’m starting to hate state employees. There were 3 of them at this meeting.

• I told you how I’ve been appointed to the Northeast Regional Tourism Board, part of the state tourism board. Well the first meeting is tomorrow and I never got any follow-up emails telling me when and where the meeting is going to be held.
• I emailed the board members asking the when and where and got an apology and the info.
• I need to travel 2 hours for this meeting and I’m hoping that the weather is nice enough for me to take the bike, but I have little chance of that happening.
• The weatherliar claims we’re in for a wet week. Up to 4 inches for the week. I’ll believe it when I see the rain gauge bringing over the top.
• I noticed today that I had rolled over 60,000 miles last week in my Jeep. I also need to have the fluids changed soon. I think I’m due for a major, which is not included in my oil change contract. They’ll deduct the cost of the oil from the bill but they will still gig me for a large bill.
• The major includes both differentials, tranny and filter, coolant, and all filters.
• I had to pause while writing this, Tori had me check for an invisible owl that was in the store. I scared it away. I must have, she no longer hears it.
• This weekend’s bike rally in Vegas was a lot of fun. both Nina and I enjoyed the rally and the people watching. Sturgis next year!

Just remember: For every Christmas tree lit before Thanksgiving, an elf drowns a baby reindeer.