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1 posted on 07/08/2011 10:16:56 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Paleo Conservative

Oy!


2 posted on 07/08/2011 10:19:59 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Paleo Conservative
Irony. He demo'd it.

/johnny

3 posted on 07/08/2011 10:20:42 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Paleo Conservative; Pete-R-Bilt; glock rocks; B4Ranch

Just damn....


4 posted on 07/08/2011 10:22:55 PM PDT by tubebender (The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some very good ideas)
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Sometimes referred to as...organ donors.


...mostly in the ER.
5 posted on 07/08/2011 10:24:59 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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Irony strikes again!

Hope he gets to ride a motorcycle in Heaven.

7 posted on 07/08/2011 10:46:49 PM PDT by Luna (Evil will not triumph. God is at the helm.)
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I don't like mandatory helmet laws anymore than I like mandatory seat belt laws. I personally wouldn't even ride a motorcycle because they are obviously much more dangerous than using a regular vehicle, but if I did I would wear a helmet just as I always wear a seat belt. I just don't think it should be mandatory unless we are talking about juveniles. I just don't like the idea of an adult not being able to choose if he wears a helmet on a bike or a seat belt in a car.

These laws have nothing to do with safety as they are advertised, but are just another of the many ways politicians bring in revenue by issuing frivolous tickets while pretending to be doing it because they care and want to save lives. It usually works because most people like me who don't ride motorcycles and always wear seat belts either support or ignore the issue. It's the same thing they do with cigarettes. A lot of people who don't smoke don't care about the laws because it's something that doesn't affect them, and while I don't smoke I think a person has the right to do so and I'm not afraid of the exaggerated second hand smoking crap they always report.

The only problem with things like smoking is many smokers are going to be using taxpayer money to get treatment for any illness that it causes. That doesn't change my opposition to the anti-smoking laws it just makes me think we need to make some big changes in taxpayer health care programs, and I have absolutely no confidence that any of that will ever be changed significantly for the better. There will never be a significant and permanent cutback to any of those things. There are just too many ignorant people who don't understand how things work and those who just don't care.

10 posted on 07/08/2011 10:59:50 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Illegal immigration is a bigger security threat to our nation than any terrorist group.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
I don't like mandatory helmet laws anymore than I like mandatory seat belt laws. I personally wouldn't even ride a motorcycle because they are obviously much more dangerous than using a regular vehicle, but if I did I would wear a helmet just as I always wear a seat belt. I just don't think it should be mandatory unless we are talking about juveniles. I just don't like the idea of an adult not being able to choose if he wears a helmet on a bike or a seat belt in a car.

These laws have nothing to do with safety as they are advertised, but are just another of the many ways politicians bring in revenue by issuing frivolous tickets while pretending to be doing it because they care and want to save lives. It usually works because most people like me who don't ride motorcycles and always wear seat belts either support or ignore the issue. It's the same thing they do with cigarettes. A lot of people who don't smoke don't care about the laws because it's something that doesn't affect them, and while I don't smoke I think a person has the right to do so and I'm not afraid of the exaggerated second hand smoking crap they always report.

The only problem with things like smoking is many smokers are going to be using taxpayer money to get treatment for any illness that it causes. That doesn't change my opposition to the anti-smoking laws it just makes me think we need to make some big changes in taxpayer health care programs, and I have absolutely no confidence that any of that will ever be changed significantly for the better. There will never be a significant and permanent cutback to any of those things. There are just too many ignorant people who don't understand how things work and those who just don't care.

11 posted on 07/08/2011 11:00:38 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Illegal immigration is a bigger security threat to our nation than any terrorist group.)
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Sorry about the double post. It seems to me there are too many people on FR who support these kinds of things. Maybe I'm just making assumptions just because they didn't directly say they opposed the law.
15 posted on 07/08/2011 11:18:50 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior (Illegal immigration is a bigger security threat to our nation than any terrorist group.)
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To: Paleo Conservative

Why are you posting 5-day-old news that has already been posted at least a half dozen times since?

Search is your friend...

=8-)


17 posted on 07/08/2011 11:26:35 PM PDT by =8 mrrabbit 8=
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To: Paleo Conservative

I’ll agree to allow you to protect me from the danger of not wearing a helmet when you agree to protect yourself from the harm caused by cigarettes, alcohol, obesity, drugs etc.


19 posted on 07/08/2011 11:31:17 PM PDT by kik5150
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To: Paleo Conservative

I call propoganda on this. And if true, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that the founding father’s never intended gov’t to protect us from ourselves. If this is true, he gambled and lost. RIP.

If you exchange liberty for security, you deserve neither(paraphrased) ~Thomas Jefferson


25 posted on 07/09/2011 12:54:30 AM PDT by rosepetal2010 (The government is NOT your friend)
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The helmet protest ride is simply the most dangerous “ride” I have ever been on. You have hundreds of riders who all want to ride in their own groups and yet want to be part of this event. I stopped going after a few close calls while on this ride because it was not safe, and certainly not fun.

I still support the cause of: let those who ride decide.


35 posted on 07/09/2011 5:33:27 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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For Sale
1983 Harley Davidson may have Darwin hex


38 posted on 07/09/2011 7:40:50 AM PDT by Vaduz
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