Reflections From a Murky Pond

Some pairings seem preordained in any society. In America one of these pairings is beautiful women and motorcycles. Whether one describes it as bikes and babes, hawgs and hotties, or choppers and chicks, this combination is deeply ingrained in people’s consciousnesses.

I’m really not sure at all if the near-ubiquitous combination of hotties and motorcycles is due to marketing campaigns that have propagated the imagery or if those marketing campaigns are due to an existent societal meme which paired beautiful women and bikes. The pairing has been around a long time though.

Harleys And Hotties – Right From The Start

Of course the reasons and origins of the meme don’t really matter. What matters is that women and motorcycles are a natural pairing in America. it’s one of the reasons- though only one, albeit a fine one – that many of us prefer a bike over a cage.

As it was, so shall it be. The details and the victims might change, but the song – a dirge for profit and jobs in this case – remains the same.

Government: I’ve Been Working On The Railroad

The Albuquerque Tribune was right on June 14, 1958 when they printed this cartoon and, if they changed the setting to reflect an industry that hadn’t yet been quasi-nationalized, they’d be right again today.

Nothing really changes. Government regulations quickly become archaic and cannot adapt to the changes in the marketplace. Likewise, they normally involve taxes design to fund government programs at the expense of business and those that business employs.

That doesn’t mean that all regulation and taxation is bad but it does mean that Americans must look upon them with jaundiced eyes, full in the knowledge that the agendas of those pushing for these things is likely to be antithetical to the vey foundations of American society and enterprise.

Posted with a grateful H/T to Yesteryear Once More.

The unwashed, unworthy, and obviously unthinking rabble that make up the labor unions’ ground troops in their staged Occupy Wall St. Protests are truly funny to watch.

These hopeless and unproductive slackers don’t even realize that they proclaiming to world that they’re just biting the very hands that feed them, cloth them, and provide them with their much needed toys. 😉

We continue to hear a bit, though not a great deal, about the anti-market and anti-American filth “occupying” Wall Street in New York. But what is it that this rabble wants?

What Do They Want? Other People’s Money!

They’re utterly unfocused and don’t even have an agenda beyond hating the productive and wanting the government to redistribute the wealth so that they don’t have to take responsibility for themselves and their own survival and/or prosperity.

Fortunately for Americans, the same lack of merit that caused these slackers to protest keeps them from being much of threat to our nation for now. If that changes later, we will just have to slaughter amongst them until they crawl back into the sewers where they belong.

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Keep your eyes open. Travel light but load heavy, and always put another round in the enemy after they’re down.

The most common variant of Fred R. Barnard’s phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words” is certainly a truism. It’s also a damn fine thing at times…

Even better, it still holds true even when the words in question are in another language – German in this wonderful case – viewed reversed through a mirror.