Pushing The Envelope, Part III: Ghost Rider

The human being has always pushed the envelope into and beyond the realms of danger. This is the third of some Sunday postings displaying how restless Man is with the mundane and how he purposely crosses the threshold into danger willingly — and sometimes unwillingly.

Three eye-opening videos about the famed European motorcycle rider, who now has a massive global following, called “Ghost Rider.” He is to motors what The Stig is to Top Gear.

He has not been caught by any police agency.
He calls up the police in the jurisdictions through which he plans to ride, and tells them he is coming.
In the above video, please note that 270 kph indicated in the digital speedometer = 173 mph.

In this second video, please continuously note the digital kph speedo on the right; 298 kph through Paris = 185 mph.
He has a death wish, but I must admit he’s one helluva rider. The sad thing is that when he becomes liquid on the pavement of some European country, he might not end up taking just himself out; he could easily strike, at horrendous speed, an uninvolved second party.
Nevertheless, I find myself fascinated, revulsed and riveted simultaneously.
BZ

Michael Steele’s LOSER Mentality

Republican Chairman Michael Steele can go straight to hell.

First, he says the GOP has no chance of winning the House or Senate back.
Then he tells fellow Republicans and potential donors to “shut up” if we don’t care for his tactics and actions.
This is a LOSER’s mentality and Mr Steele needs to be fired, just as he suggests in an interview with St. Louis ABC radio station KTRS on Thursday. Steele said:
“I’m telling them and I’m looking them in the eye and say I’ve had enough of it. If you don’t want me in the job, fire me. But until then, shut up. Get with the program or get out of the way.”
Mr Steele, I’m sorry, it isn’t “all about you.” Here is the interview:
Already the pundits are weighing in:

Mr Steele hasn’t done the GOP any favors whatsoever. All this has done is make the GOP look incredibly foolish and has begged the perfect “setup question” for every Republican faced with their own interview: “So,” the DEM/MSM interviewer will say, “Mr Steele thinks you’re all losers.”
Mr Steele? Go to hell. You’re fired. You clearly don’t want any cash from me in the future.
BZ

MSM: Beginning To Finally Stir?

Uh-oh. This doesn’t look good. Is the MSM/Defeatist-Elitist Media (DEM) actually beginning to awaken to the nature of Mr Obama?

CBS News has a headline here that reads: “Obama Reneges on Health Care Transparency.”
Then CNN’s Jack Cafferty shocks me, here:

I sat slack-jawed when I heard him say: “Here’s hoping the voters remember some of this crap when the mid-term elections roll around later this year.”
What kind of memory do you think the electorate will possess?
BZ

Demorats Fluctuous: What Is Certain?

One thing is certain now:

The Shiny on Our Hero has now apparently dulled to a lesser sheen. Perhaps it’s his hair care products, or is it his work product?

Even the NanceMeister took an AirPunch at Our Hero on Wednesday when it was reported on Politico:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises.

A leadership aide said it was no accident.

Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her leadership team and committee chairs in the Capitol to face an aggressive throng of reporters who immediately hit her with C-SPAN’s request that she permit closed-door final talks on the bill to be televised.

A reporter reminded the San Francisco Democrat that in 2008, then-candidate Obama opined that all such negotiations be open to C-SPAN cameras.

“There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail,” quipped Pelosi, who has no intention of making the deliberations public.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the DrudgeReport revealed that Our Hero promised, eight times, that healthcare negotiations would be televised. Just a bit of conflict, that, eh?

Transparency? How about the precise opposite? How about deals done in the dead of night? How about votes taken in the dead of night? How about Nancy saying, as quoted above, that she has no intention of making the deliberations public?

Further: HERE COME THE TAXES:

Our Hero just approved a tax on your healthcare benefits. You know: the ones that all the Demorats say are terrible, rotten, hock-ptui! Your private benefits aren’t squat; only the Gub’mint can do it properly.

If your private or employer-provided benefits are so shoddy, so ineffective, then why tax them?

The Demorats, despite having all the power necessary to literally steamroller over all the weak-assed Republicans, are pushing for more back-door/nightshade/stealth moves in private:

Further, some Demorats are simply giving up. Chris Dodd sees the writing on the wall — but only after he had a major assist in the decimation of our entire country. Five more Demorats are seen as paraplegic as well as Demorat Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota.

But, of course, Demorats take heart: the Republicans will find a way to screw this opportunity up as well.

BZ