12 hours ago, 2strokemerc said:

 

Nice job on the restoration! As I recall it was amazing those sleds moved forward because the track lugs were maybe a 1/4" LOL

13 hours ago, Biggie Smails said:

I will be in Wiscy sometime soon so hopefully I can make down that way.

No one is holding there breath waiting for you 

1 hour ago, Snake said:

R family vales say get the parent a real job so he doesn't have to suck the teat. What do you think they prefer, a blue check or a job?

Well it appears that most folks on welfare have a job or jobs, now what?

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Get a Job? Most Welfare Recipients Already Have One

It’s poor-paying jobs, not unemployment, that strains the welfare system.

That’s one key finding from a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, that showed the majority of households receiving government assistance are headed by a working adult.

The study found that 56% of federal and state dollars spent between 2009 and 2011 on welfare programs — including Medicaid, food stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit — flowed to working families and individuals with jobs. In some industries, about half the workforce relies on welfare.

“When companies pay too little for workers to provide for their families, workers rely on public assistance programs to meet their basic needs,” said Ken Jacobs, chairman of the university’s Center for Labor Research and Education and one of the report’s authors.

More than half of front-line fast-food workers receive some form of government assistance.

Pay for those workers has received significant attention recently. Fast-food workers have held several protests and strikes over the past year. And earlier this month, McDonald’s said it would raise pay for 90,000 of its lowest-paid employees at company-operated stores.

Among other fields, 48% of home-care workers and 25% of part-time college faculty also receive government assistance.

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/13/get-a-job-most-welfare-recipients-already-have-one/

 

 

My Dad rented 1969 Mercury 220's, technically the first sled I rode was a 69 Ariens as that is what my Dad first started to rent but they all broke down the first day of use, the dealer took them back and a deal was done for the Mercs. The first sled I bought and owned was a used 77 Yamaha Exciter I bought in 1984.

Look I'm wearing a Yamaha jacket LOL

35 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said:

Wondering myself....on the old FS and now this one there are guys ordering new sleds, getting jobs at brokerage firms, new houses, renovations, boats, camps, ect.....

That's what I'm talking about Jim, these same guys are also saying how bad things are yet it sounds like there life is good, WTF is up with that?

3 hours ago, Capt.Storm said:

Yeah it's a false economy right now. 

But hey Greenspan did keep inflation super low with his rates...course Barry helped also by keeping job growth low.

 

You know small business are the back bone of the economy though right?  

What's false Cappy? Is it the guys on this website buying new trucks, sleds, homes, etc....?

1 hour ago, 1jkw said:

The information given to Powell was known to be false before he went to the UN.

Powell said he was duped, Rumsfeld said Powell was not aware the intel was false, and Powell at the time believed it to be true.

Powell sat for days in meetings with people who knew it was false and kept it from him.

There are plenty of youtube vids of Rumsfeld stating that Powell believed the intel to be true.

 

Powell was pissed off about being duped, it did not sit well with him.

18 hours ago, Biggie Smails said:

I'm a member at both places without issue.....not sure why there are those on both sites acting like little kids.

I'm a member there too, but I can only do one fuckoff website at a time so I chose the familiar FS, plus the good news is my time on the WWW has dropped since Rob burned down the old FS site and that's a good thing 

13 minutes ago, SVT Renegade XRS said:

Nice trailer Jay!! May I suggest an LS mod for the truck? 

7 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

What a bunch of shit.  "Heavily massaged".  

Fact is all presented with information had and did do their own information gathering.  You think the dems told the reps "Hey, yeah, you guys do the homework and we'll just sit back and agree with it all."  Laughable.  "War" was decided by each corner for their own selfish gains one way or the other. Why on earth do Dems think the reps are a bunch of war mongering harbingers of death?  That's just stupid rhetoric turned into nice bales of hay for the sheep feeding.  

And the "U.N."  Yes, by all means, let's bring them into any retarded conversation and pretend those water and food waiters in the war zone actually have any power enforce ANYTHING and aren't operating under a guise of their own little 2nd and 3rd world dictatorship.  AWESOME!  Last encounter I had with the UN goobers almost resulted in them all being shot in the head multiple times and having their vehicles commandeered.

The United States Democratic Party and the United Nations; a partnership protecting the world from the world within our world of worlds.  

The Executive branch presented the info to the Legislative branch, it was pile of contrived bullshit and we know because.............

Now here is some interesting facts.

WOW that was excellent!!

6 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Do you think we'd have been over there jerking around without the consent and support of the democrats?  Do you know how government works?  Or are you one that sits and cries and finds ways to blame the other side...from whatever side you sit on.  Our government has been duping us since it's inception, and a larger government will dupe us even more...as it has been with our "leader".  "Helping the middle class."  What a load of shit.  

And I am pretty far from a "right winger". Both extremes of each side hold the most idiotic sheep we have in our country.  And those two sides are the majority of the population.  But if I had to do one or the other, after a complete full frontal labodomy, I'd have to at least see that the republicans create wealth and wealth creates jobs.  Disproportionately?  Yes.  But at less they create jobs.  Dems create wealth too, but only within government offices.  After those pockets are lined, "distribution" will keep the dem voters "happy".

So, while it's taken me years to finally realize this, I can work my life and finances to take advantage of every loophole and advantage both sides seem to think is best to keep their voting sheep in line.  And it laugh every time I do it.  Republicans make opportunities in the private sector, dems create opportunities within the government run programs.  Know who can't take advantage of either very well?  Folks that are on someone else's payroll.  And the worst off are those on someone else's payroll that are actually working during large government admin years.  The programs being instituted by their leaders aren't designed to help them.  It's comical but I actually am allowed to put more money in my pocket during a Dem run government.  But really, all I am doing is putting that unpaid portion on the next generation....but that seems to be "OK" by them.  So, 

 

 

The democrats and the UN were presented with intelligence reports that were heavily massaged to get us into an Iraq war that the Bush neo-cons lusted for.

51 minutes ago, Axys1 said:

Beef Brisket. Ckf you got me thinking about doing one. Thanks man.

Damn that's making me hungry!

Well now that big oil is buying into the climate change thing do you think that your thoughts of climate change being false might change now?

The whole story is at the link, European oil companies have come to grips with the idea that the energy business is going to change because of climate change, and now investors are demanding that Exxon does something before it becomes the next Kodak. 

5 minutes ago, ckf said:

Love the old pics. I wish I had backed up the photos on my older computers before they kicked the bucket

I lost about 5 years of pics when one of my PC's shit the bed   Carbonite now!

A wet heavy snow stuck.....ugh

Time for some beer, venison salami, cheese and crackers.

The little guy in the pic above is now the guy with the beard below.

12 hours ago, Sal Rosenberg said:

 

Yeah , I think it was like 19 hours or so .   It was nothing that we planned , it just came about as we were having breakfast around 9 am in Greenville .    

" Waddya wanna do today" ?

" I duuno , I'm full of oil though... you?"

" Yeah , I'm full .   Wanna go to FT Kent the long way, we ain't nevah been there before?"

" Yeah.  Yeah , that sounds like fun ... get the check and let's roll "

Damn Ron, that's one hell of a day! We've discussed doing a 600 miler but at this stage of the game I don't have the desire, now I like to get an early start an roll into town at around 5:00 so I can get settled in and get a Crown on the rocks in my hands, the savages I ride with always like to get into town right before the restaurant closes LOL

In the rain we are checking into customs St. Joseph Island, Ontario February 2001, it was an epic day 2 of our ride around Superior; we would soon discover that the North Channel was a mess with lots of ugly ice with water on top of it and the tree line had been blown out by heavy winds. The day started out around 38*F in Cedarville Michigan and by the time we were 50 miles south of Chapleau we were in frigid whiteout conditions, we arrived in Chapleau at 9:30 and the clerk at Aux Trois Moulins not only tells me it's now -36F but that the town is booked, I told her that was alright as we would just sleep in the lobby...they found a room for the four us to pile into 

11 hours ago, DAVE said:

Then put him on ignore and dont engage with him

Always the easiest solution, yet so difficult for the weak minded LOL

4 minutes ago, Highmark said:

Sure but its funny to hear how we are not spending enough on infrastructure.  

48,000 miles of Interstate, 158,000 miles of US Route Highway, and overall there are 4,000,000 miles of roads in this country.....and you saw 2,200 miles....

4 minutes ago, Mowhawkcat said:

Lol

Wanna race 

LOL I have a 71 Panther 760 with Montana pipes.
 

79 today which is great after two days in the low 90's 

17 hours ago, Mowhawkcat said:

Amazing!

I have a woman that works for me who has a mohawk 

428 miles Chapleau Ontario to Longlac Ontario in early February 2002, we had 300+ miles on the clock when we were fueling in Manitouwadge at 3:00 in the afternoon, and well don't you know it's only another 100 miles or so to Longlac....... Oh fuck not only is it 100 miles of riding thru no-mans land it had not been groomed or signed yet, but there were some groomer flags and we could see that two sleds had been through going north, and when we reached the point of no return fuel wise and we were discussing whether to press on or return to Manitouwadge we see the two sleds whose tracks we had seen in the areas that were not windblown heading south, the info we got was huge as there was a point 40 kilometers north we would hit a road and would need to turn right and then go right again about 200 meters down the road, by the time we got to that road it was good and dark and we would never have seen or known which way to go at that road.

Any how we got into Longlac around 9:00 just in time to get a frozen pizza in the motel bar 

Had a 411 mile day Chibougamau to LaSarre in 2000, and more 300+ mile days than I can count.

The crew on the C-101D east of Chapleau a couple of days later, we had three 2002 ZR 800's on that trip and one 2001 ZL 550

6 hours ago, SnowRider said:

 I see you're still dumb  

Why do 73% of women have an unfavorable view of Dump?  And why are women a major reason he has no chance? . 

 

 

Many of those women are Republicans, Megyn Kelly, Governor Martinez, Governor Haley, just to name a few.

WOW

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Poll: Clinton and Sanders in dead heat in California  

 

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are virtually deadlocked in California, the biggest prize of the 2016 Democratic presidential primary season, according to a new poll.

The survey, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, finds Clinton with only a small lead over Sanders, 46 percent to 44 percent, among likely voters in the Democratic primary next month.

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The poll also shows a majority of Republican primary voters will cast their ballots for Donald Trump, who is joined on the ballot with four of his one-time rivals for the GOP nomination. And, in the closely watched all-party primary to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, two Democrats are poised to advance to the general election.

 

California looms largest in the Democratic presidential race, however: Clinton is likely to clinch the nomination on the evening of June 7 — factoring in the expressed preferences of unpledged superdelegates — even before polls close in California. But a victory over Sanders in California later that night could ratify Clinton’s nomination in the minds of many voters.

 

A Sanders win, on the other hand, creates an awkward situation for Clinton, who could be celebrating being dubbed the “presumptive nominee” even as she loses the nation’s largest state — and one of its most diverse.

 

The PPIC poll shows the race breaking along familiar lines. Sanders holds a large advantage among younger voters — leading 66 percent to 27 percent among voters under age 45 — while Clinton leads, 59 percent to 28 percent, among voters 45 and older.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/poll-clinton-and-sanders-in-dead-heat-in-california-223580#ixzz49moT3fG0 
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