Yes, I went and did it.

I purchased a motorcycle.

For roughly 59-cents. (Blogger, nor anyone else, offers up the actual “cents” symbol systemic during the 50s and 60s. Good luck with that.)

It’s a fairly new Yamaha TW 200, a 2010 model, which came perfectly stock.

Here is what a factory TW 200 looks like:

Mine is very similar.

Because I couldn’t truck it up from its point of delivery in Roseville, I had to ride it up to my cabin in the Fornicalia mountains over back roads I’d never considered, over routes I’d ignored.

And, during that, knowing that the bike was so terribly new as to not yet been over its 600-mile first service. Meaning: I had to treat it with kid gloves.

It struggled to reach 50 mph. 55 mph made me wince. I couldn’t remotely envision this bike making 60 or 65 mph though people have said it can be done.

On the other hand, the bike made me grin like

I realize this may be “old news,” but I only recently found this video at the GeeeeeZ blog. I had no idea whatsoever: there were 500,000 people saved on 9/11 by boats taking people off Manhattan. Click to expand the video and plug in with headphones. Well worth the media experience and the time:

BZ

From the Los Angeles Times.

Read the article. Now make sure you play the video.

Freudian?

BZ

Of the 2,600+ votes cast, GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain won the CPAC Florida straw poll on Saturday, with these results:

• Herman Cain, 37.1%
• Rick Perry, 15.4%
• Mitt Romney, 14.0%
• Rick Santorum, 10.9%
• Ron Paul, 10.4%
• Newt Gingrich, 8.4%
• Jon Huntsman, 2.3%
• Michele Bachmann, 1.5%

The Hill concludes that Rick Perry is certainly not unbeatable. Whatever he did, he did to himself. And the return numbers for Bachmann are, at minimum, execrable: last place.

Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has, obviously, clear experience in the business arena with minimal experience in politics. However, he not only had to meet a payroll but manage a large business that spanned states, nations and continents. Good for Herman Cain. As opposed to certain current personnel, he’s actually had to work in the cut-throat environment of private business, exhibited both management and leadership skills — and not only met those challenges but thrived and succeeded.

Would I object to Herman Cain? Certainly not. Perhaps with a tip-o-the-cap to Marco Rubio or Allen West as VP?

As always, things are in a state of damned-near-unpredictable flux.

BZ

P.S.
And it has so pissed off the Leftists that Mr Cain is successful, black and Republican.

America is on the economic brink of collapse.

But Europe is much, much closer and will the tipping point for the rest of the world.

And we will feel it here in the United States. We will be injured seriously. The only reason we’ve not gone down yet is because the rest of the world still mostly values the dollar, and our historical economic power. Despite the fact that the current administration is doing its level best to level us. And US.