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For the safety of others, please keep off the highways
"...get anywhere on a bike...?" Bikes are toys. If you want to get
anywhere then drive an Stupid Unnecessary Vehicle. (OOoh, I can't believe that I wrote that.) Compare the coverage of the motorist mowing down twenty bicycles in Floriduh with the eight dead and twentyish injured peds in Santa Monica Lewinsky today. "Luigi de Guzman" wrote in message om... "Mark Weaver" wrote in message news: In her possible defense, though -- the other slow moving vehicles down there that tend to obstruct traffic are tractors and combines. And the farmers driving those will go to some trouble to get as far to the side as possible and even pull over and stop to let cars around. I would hope bicyclists would be equally courteous. There's no reason to have a long line of frustrated drivers stuck behind you when pulling over for a couple of seconds would save everybody a lot of frustration. pulling over every few seconds? How do you propose to get anywhere on a bike, then? |
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For the safety of others, please keep off the highways
Don't tell her, but those cyclists were on their way to the secret black
helicopter base. "Are these groups really into recreation and exercise, or are they being mentally trained for the Sustainable Communities where bicycles will be a way of life? Automobiles are not popular in Sustainable Communities. They may never be totally outlawed as people would protest too much, but they can price the middle class out of affording a vehicle. If there is no gasoline, or it is so expensive you cannot afford it, what good is the car? Only the rich and elite would own and drive cars in a Sustainable Community. Smart Growth, which passed in Illinois last year, is the design for Sustainable Communities. This is where everything we need is stacked together, and we can ride our bicycles and walk for most of our needs and use mass transit for any other needed travel." Jesus, people, get off those bikes before you're all turned into horrible, environmentally responsible zombies! Chris Neary "Against stupidity even the gods struggle in vain" - Goethe |
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"Peter Cole" wrote:
I thought is was the typical, misinformed, logic-challenged, rant of an indignant motorist until I got to the last paragraph, which I think reveals pretty paranoid thoughts. Going to the original article, she raises the specter of bicycles displacing (via conspiracy) automobile use by the middle-class. Wacko! What kind of paper is that, anyway? Conservative, of course. And that old sow makes about as valid a case as most conservatives these days. Chalo Colina |
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Conservative, of course. And that old sow makes about as valid a case
as most conservatives these days. Its not a conservative/libral issue. Being political requires thought of the issues at hand, that article clearly showed no thought. I think the sight of all the in shape men in front of her gave her a tingley sensation she hasent felt in a while and since she cant "get any" she got frustrated. Did you see her photo? Id bet she went to the pharmacy later that day to try to get some of that viagra for her husband. |
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... Conservative, of course. And that old sow makes about as valid a case as most conservatives these days. Its not a conservative/libral issue. Being political requires thought of the issues at hand, that article clearly showed no thought. I think the sight of all the in shape men in front of her gave her a tingley sensation she hasent felt in a while and since she cant "get any" she got frustrated. Did you see her photo? Id bet she went to the pharmacy later that day to try to get some of that viagra for her husband. Gabe I agree it shouldn't be a conservative/liberal issue, but the case here is that it was an outspoken conservative that took the time to write that screed against cyclists. Can you imagine a liberal writing such a thing? Pat in TX |
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(Brent Hugh) wrote in message . com...
http://illinoisleader.com/columnists...iew.asp?c=6972 It gets better and better . . . Joyce gives us this gem: I don't know about you, but our recreation and exercise is not paid for. For one thing, we have little time for recreation these days trying to earn enough to pay the taxes that pay for bike trails which bikers choose to avoid. Our exercise comes from our work. This brings up a little fact dug up by Bob Foster, chair of the Missouri Bicycle Federation: Joyce Morrison's husband, a farmer, has received $125,000 in payments from the USDA over a five-year period. For complete details, see http://www.ewg.org/farm/farmerdetail.php?pid=AYOH9G4 Joyce Morrison--who portrays herself as a poor victim who has no time for recreation because she is so busy working to pay her onerous load of taxes--is actually a welfare queen who has almost certainly received more in government subsidy payments than she has paid in taxes over the last five years. Now that you know that, go back and re-read her spew of righteous indignation, all based on the "fact" that she is nothing but an honest, hard-workin', God-fearin' citizen who's literally being EATEN ALIVE by the high taxes the EVIL government is forcing her to pay. And meanwhile being put upon by a bunch of freeloading bicyclists who demand handout after handout and don't pay their fair share. As you're reading, try--just try--to avoid breaking out in GALES of laughter. I mean, take your handout if you must. But afterwards you just really, really, gotta lose the "I pay my fair share--get the freeloading losers out of my way" diatribes . . . --Brent bhugh [at] mwsc.edu |
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Mark Weaver wrote: ... No, nobody out there in the corn fields rides bikes (Republicans or Democrats if there are any)--except maybe the kids who happen to live in town.... I happen to know several Illinois farmers that ride bicycles. The Illinois Farm Bureau even puts on a multi-day bike ride. http://www.ilfb.org/viewdocument.asp?did=6057 Tom Sherman - Quad Cities USA (Illinois side) |
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Fritz M wrote: I think it's a rural Illinois thing. When I lived in downstate Illinois it was the worst eight years of my life riding a bike.... I have never had any incidents with unfriendly motor vehicles while riding in rural downstate Illinois, except near the fringes of the cities where some luxury SUV owner take offense at anything that is in front of them on the road. Tom Sherman - Quad Cities USA (Illinois side) |
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