Yo we told you about the prison industry.

Recently we saw news items regarding how Florida has the second largest prison population next to Texas.  Of course, the insane amounts of money the Prison lobby dumped into Florida has nothing to do with rising incarcerations and rehabilitation cuts have nothing to with increasing their profits.  And of course  the fact that it is over and over again proven to be failed policy then, not only Florida, but other states will follow along for the money, I mean ride.  Because in the long run it cost more money to render people non-  productive!

We have been wanting to write a post about the insanity of it all when the little light bulb went off.  Wait a second, we have:

AMERICA-Land of the Free???

Florida finally figures out how to increase prison population

Help empty prison beds in Florida

Free Florida from the Good Ol Boy Prison culture

OF course these posts were made as far back as 2008 and so should mean nothing.  Just like our postThe Government can't run a whorehouse so you give them your banksWas written in 2008.

Update on Tallahassee Motorcyclist fatality

our prayers go out to James Revell and his family. May he rest in peace now forever in the wind.


UPDATED 6.30.2011 6:30pm by Julie Montanaro

IronBolt Bruce's ride number fifty three, or how to define masochismprove

I like to ride.  I mean, I really like to ride.  But since the passage of time has moved much of my butt to my gut, I find more and more of my rides reduced to boney butt rides.  And though I have no problem causing pain (via tattoo's and piercings. By the way ladies, free spanking with every tattoo) I'm gettin to where taking it is not much fun anymore.

However Bruce Arnold is like the Every Ready bunny.  Just keeps going and going...........

Here is his latest ride:
IRON BUTT RIDE #53 ( In the Sand and On the Shoulder )
Distance Riding with Bruce | July 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Bruce Arnold. Republication with attribution permitted.

At 1:28am ET on Tuesday, 1 June 2011, I logged an ATM slip in SoBe marking the successful completion of what should be certified as my 6th SaddleSore 2000 and 53rd Iron Butt Ride on which I covered a distance of 2,144 miles in 32 hours 12 minutes road time and 43 hours 7 minutes total time. My route for Day 1 was from San Antonio TX west on IH-10 to Fort Stockton TX, then north on FM-1053 through Imperial TX to IH-20, then back east to Shreveport LA and finally south on IH-49 to Alexandria LA for a total of 1,053 miles. My route for Day 2 was from Alexandria south on IH-49 to Lafayette LA, then east on IH-10/IH-12/IH-10 to Jacksonville FL, then finally south on IH-95 to Miami Beach FL for a total of 1,091 miles.

Day 1: San Antonio TX to Alexandria LA, the Long Way (1,053 miles)

A cool and gentle Hill Country breeze was blowing as I logged the pre-dawn start of my Memorial Day ride by pulling a gas receipt at the pumps of a 24-hour Alamo City c-store. Soon after a stop for bad coffee but good jerky in Junction, however, that gentle breeze from the south turned into a wild West Texas wind that was literally howling by the time I exited for gas at a dying truck stop in Ozona. Shortly after I pulled out of there, the incessant buffeting from that wicked chiflon ripped the left-side lacing out of my riding vest and forced me to pull over and make a quick roadside repair with the white string out of a packed tennis shoe. This was much like what happened to me near Road Forks NM on my 100 CCC Insanity ride a few years ago, but at least this time I didn't lose my favorite bandanna...

An hour or so later I reached Fort Stockton and turned north on FM-1053 towards Imperial, where I planned to stop for a brief inspection of a small patch of mesquite and sage I bought there in better times. Landmarks made it easy to find the turn right onto the unpaved road, but from there I had to rely on a printed Google map, my odometer and a cheap handheld GPS to guide me the 3 miles or so to the tract:

Video how the 14th amendment may impact the Debt Ceiling discussion

We were hesitant about posting this video discussion about the fourteenth amendment. Why? Because it aired on MSNBC. See right away a whole bunch of mouses just went click, click, click. But as we have admonished in the past, "contempt prior to investigation" breeds ignorance.

It is also a breeding ground for prejudice, tunnel vision, close mindedness and misunderstandings that all to often lead to, not an expansion of liberty, but a loss of liberty. On that basis our decision was made.

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Debt Ceiling Breech 14th amendment no no, crank up the presses

The fourteenth Amendment of the United States of America reads as follows (take note of section 4): 

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

Since we know that Speaker of the House John Boehner didn't understand the rules when he legitimized two newly elected representatives that held their hands over their hearts and took the oath of congress while attending fund raising functions.  And if Congresswoman Michele Bachmanns understanding of American history is reflective of others in congress.  Then the obstructionists are cutting their own throats.

Michele Bachmann and the History of America- Clinton loves her

Listening to Michele Bachman is a bittersweet experience. Her interpretations of history are funny as hell. The fact that people would actually vote for her for president is a sad commentary on the educational status of America.
Courtesy of Jimmy Kimmel

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