I had totally forgotten this thread!

Not a whole lot of riding yet this year, for a variety of reasons, but got out with some friends today for a nice ride in the mountains.

Karen got a new hip about 6 months ago, and is still not comfortable climbing onto the back of a bike. So today we took the '98 K1200RS sidecar rig. Rode along the Ocoee on US64, then to Benton, TN to a Mennonite farm for some veggies, then to Tellico Plains for a snack at Tellico Grains Bakery, then back home.

In front of the bakery:



There's an Airhead rally coming up near Boone, NC in about 10 days, and we're going to try that - it will be our first motorcycle camping trip since the surgery. Great group that accepts us as Airheads, even if we don't currently own one. That may change in the future!

1) There is no legitimate racial angle. I did not even know until this thread the race of the child or his family.

2) I would think every parent knows that it's physically impossible to watch a child every single moment. Most parents earnestly try their best - there's a biological imperative to do so. But lapses and accidents happen - that's just the reality.

So much for the Laffer Curve.

What do you think the Laffer Curve models, and why do you think your example falsifies it?

We are not Germany.

Germany wasn't Germany - until it was.

People support Hillary for one reason only- "Because Trump".

I cannot know what lies in their hearts, but many of my friends and family profess to really like Hillary, and have supported her with enthusiasm since before she got in the race.

I can really only go by their words and actions - and I don't think it's a vast-left-wing-conspiracy to befuddle the right.

Continuing to deny it doesn't make it false.

 Just saying......

It really is literally tautologically true...

If you don't vote for anyone, you haven't voted for anyone.

To insist otherwise really comes across as retarded.

Really.

I think nearly all police and military would carry out their orders perfectly... until the shooting started. Once people started dying and troops would have to show up with squads in full armor and armored vehicles, many would question just what the hell is going on in our country. Many of them would wake up to the "transformation" of America and reflect upon where we have been and how we got here.

I hope you're right, but it did not happen en masse in Nazi Germany. Even in Occupied France a certain number of the police just followed the orders of their new masters.

Hopefully there's something fundamentally different about the American psyche. But when I see how quickly a large number of Americans have latched onto what I see as an authoritarian figure, I have to worry.