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This morning when I opened my browser on my netbook to check my mail noticed that Firefox looked different.  Not sure how is happened, but I now have a “Bing” search toolbar and Bing was set as my default search engine.

A new look for my browser

I always use Firefox for my browser to prevent happenings like this.  IE is constantly being updated and is the target of many toolbar additions.  Even with Firefox you have to pay attention when even downloading updates for the Java runtime or you will get additional toolbars installed.  But in this case, I don’t actually recall going to Bing or to any Microsoft sites, but apparently I did.

Is this just a “Merry Christmas” from Microsoft?

A couple of simple adjustments and all is back to normal.  Haven’t seen this with Firefox before!  Be careful out there!

A friend sent me this link.  It explains the administrations “Quantitative Easing” in a very simple, easy to understand way.   I really liked it and I am sure you will too!

So…..what do you think?

Here are some interesting facts about Thomas Jefferson.  Check out some of Mr. Jefferson’s quote and think about them when you are deciding on who to vote for on November 2nd.

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.

• · At 5, began studying under his cousins’ tutor.
• · At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.
• · At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.
• · At 16, entered the College of William and Mary.
• · At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
• · At 23, started his own law practice.
• · At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
• · At 31, wrote the widely circulated “Summary View of the Rights of British America” and retired from his law practice.
• · At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
• · At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.
• · At 33, took three years to revise Virginia ‘s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
• · At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
• · At 40, served in Congress for two years.
• · At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
• · At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
• · At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
• · At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
• · At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .
• · At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.
• · At 61, was elected to a second term as President.
• · At 65, retired to Monticello .
• · At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
• · At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
• · At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew because he-himself studied the previous failed attempts at government.

He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today.

Jefferson really knew his stuff.

A voice from the past to lead us in the future:

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: “This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes.
A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies..
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property – until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

I wish we could get this out to everyone!!!

I’m doing my part. Please do yours…

A LAWYER WITH A BRIEFCASE CAN STEAL MORE THAN A THOUSAND MEN WITH GUNS.
Vito Corleone

The Lawyers’ Party   By Bruce Walker

The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.  Barack Obama is a lawyer.  Michelle Obama is a lawyer.  Hillary Clinton is a lawyer.  Bill Clinton is a lawyer.  John Edwards is a lawyer.  Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyer.  Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).  Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school.  Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress:  Harry Reid is a lawyer.  Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer.

The Republican Party is different.  President Bush is a businessman.  Vice President Cheney is a businessman.  The leaders of the Republican Revolution:  Newt Gingrich was a history professor.  Tom Delay was an exterminator.  Dick Armey was an economist.  House Minority Leader Boehner was a plastic manufacturer.  The former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is a heart surgeon.  Who was the last Republican president who was a lawyer?  Gerald Ford, who left office 31 years ago and who barely won the Republican nomination as a sitting president, running against Ronald Reagan in 1976.

The Republican Party is made up of real people doing real work, who are often the targets of lawyers.  The Democrat Party is made up of lawyers.  Democrats mock and scorn men who create wealth, like Bush and Cheney, or who heal the sick, like Frist, or who immerse themselves in history, like Gingrich.

The Lawyers Party sees these sorts of people, who provide goods and services that people want, as the enemies of America.  We have seen the procession of official enemies, in the eyes of the Lawyers Party,  grow.

Against whom do Hillary and Obama rail?  Pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, hospitals, manufacturers, fast food restaurant chains, large retail businesses, bankers, and anyone producing anything of value in our nation.

This is the natural consequence of viewing everything through the eyes of lawyers.  Lawyers solve problems by successfully representing their clients, in this case the American people.  Lawyers seek to have new laws passed, they seek to win lawsuits, they press appellate courts to overturn precedent, and lawyers always parse language to favor their side.

Confined to the narrow practice of law, that is fine.  But it is an awful way to govern a great nation.  When politicians as lawyers begin to view some Americans as clients and other Americans as opposing parties, then the role of the legal system in our life becomes all-consuming.  Some Americans become adverse parties of our very government.  We are not all litigants in some vast social class-action suit.  We are citizens of a republic that promises us a great deal of freedom from laws, from courts, and from lawyers.

Today, we are drowning in laws; we are contorted by judicial decisions; we are driven to distraction by omnipresent lawyers in all parts of our once private lives.  America has a place for laws and lawyers, but that place is modest and reasonable, not vast and unchecked.  When the most important decision for our next president is whom he will appoint to the Supreme Court, the role of lawyers and the law in America is too big.

When House Democrats sue America in order to hamstring our efforts to learn what our enemies are planning to do to us, then the role of litigation in America has become crushing.

We cannot expect the Lawyers Party to provide real change, real reform or real hope in America.  Most Americans know that a republic in which every major government action must be blessed by nine unelected judges is not what Washington intended in 1789.  Most Americans grasp that we cannot fight a war when ACLU lawsuits snip at the heels of our defenders.  Most Americans intuit that more lawyers and judges will not restore declining moral values or spark the spirit of enterprise in our economy.

Perhaps Americans will understand that change cannot be brought to our nation by those lawyers who already largely dictate American society and business.  Perhaps Americans will see that hope does not come from the mouths of lawyers but from personal dreams nourished by hard work.  Perhaps Americans will embrace the truth that more lawyers with more power will only make our problems worse.

The United States has 5% of the world’s population and 66% of the world’s lawyers!  Tort (Legal) reform legislation has been introduced in congress several times in the last several years to limit punitive damages in ridiculous lawsuits such as spilling hot coffee on yourself and suing the establishment that sold it to you and also to limit punitive damages in huge medical malpractice lawsuits.  This legislation has continually been blocked from even being voted on by the Democrat Party.  When you see that 97% of the political contributions from the American Trial Lawyers Association goes to the Democrat Party, then you realize who is responsible for our medical and product costs being so high.

I was surfing through some of the on-line motorcycle magazines when I came across a Cycle World Special Feature, CW’s Best Used Bikes and there was a photo of a ZRX1100R.  Well, that immediately got my attention, so I clicked on the link.

Best Used Bikes

I was interested because about three years ago I bought a used 2002 ZRX1200R, the newer, bigger brother of the 1100.   Back in the day when I was putting around on my Honda CB77 305 SuperHawk and my Honda 450 DOHC, Kawasaki was the premier performance motor cycle.  The first of their legendary super bikes was two stroke H1 and H2 triple cylinder bikes.  A buddy of mine had the 750 H2 Kawasaki. These things were just scary fast from a stop light.  Kawasaki came out with their first four stroke performance bike with the Z-900, followed by the legendary KZ-1000 and the KZ-1100.  These bikes were very fast, handled well, and was the platform that Eddie Lawson won several national championships on.  Eddie’s 1981 KZ 1000 was the model for the “retro” ZRX-1100 / 1200.

ZRX1100R and KZ1000

The ZRX is retro in styling, but backed up with some more modern running gear.  The 4 cylinder inline engine is liquid cooled as apposed to the air cooled KZ.  It has modern multi piston caliper disk brakes, electronic ignition and some of the later models even have catalytic converters for reduced emissions.

I have been thoroughly pleased with the Kawa.  It is very versatile, it can be a daily driver, it can do a pretty good imitation of a sport bike, but the reason I like it, it is just fun to ride.  It has enough power to be both fun and dangerous.  It is kinda fun walking away from a Z06 Corvette at a stop light, but you can’t roll on a lot of throttle quickly or it will stand up on the rear wheel in a heartbeat!  As a daily driver it is smooth and is perfectly comfortable cruising at 35 miles per hour, or if you want to do a track day it will cruise nicely at 135 miles per hour.

Ride Safe.