N4RFC.COM

Great Orators of the Democrat Party

‘One man with courage makes a majority.’
– Andrew Jackson

‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’
– John F.  Kennedy

And from today’s Genius Democrats…………….

‘It depends what your definition of ‘Sex’ is?”
– Bill Clinton

‘Those rumors are false …. I believe in the sanctity of marriage.’
– John Edwards

‘I invented the Internet’

– Al Gore

‘The next Person that tells me I’m not religious,  I’m going to shove my rosary  beads up their ASS.’
– Joe Biden

HOW LUCKY CAN WE BE TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF OUR IMPERILED COUNTRY?

”Life’s tough ……..

— John Wayne

The way we are headed in the United States today, this story could soon be true here.

A woman in the UK, home alone late on Friday night in her kitchen which overlooked her garden, saw several teens had entered her garden and were attempting to break into her shed.   She screamed at them and waved a kitchen knife at them and they ran off.  When the police arrived she was informed that she could be arrested.  They explained that  a knife was an offensive weapon and it was illegal to use an offensive weapon even in defense of their own home!

Here is the link to the story in the Telegraph.

Fortunately we still have the right to defend our lives and homes in America.  But, I am certain, there are a number of politicians in this country that would love to make America like Europe…..some of them have even stated as such.   Unfortunately for the UK they don’ t have a Second Amendment.  I hope we are able to hang on to ours!

Ok, here it is.  The recipe for the best Chex Mix you have ever eaten.  This is my mother’s recipe modified over the years; I like a bit more garlic in mine.

In a small sauce pan melt a stick and a half of butter, use real butter, margarine doesn’t taste nearly as good.  Add five table spoons of Worcestershire sauce, a teaspoon salt, 2 teaspoons of garlic powder.  Mix these together in the melted butter.

Put 2 cups each of Wheat Chex, Rice Chex, Corn Chex, Cheerios, small pretzel sticks broken in half, and an 11.5 oz. can of mixed nuts into a small roasting pan.  I use the  broiler pan from our oven, it should be a good steel pan, not one of the foil pans.

Pour the butter mix over the Chex mix and stir it in well, get all of the mix wet with the butter sauce.

Bake the mix for 45 minutes to 1 hour at 275 degrees stirring every 15 to 20 minutes.  Turn the mix over to make sure it stays slightly wet with the butter sauce.  I use the convection oven that seems to make the mix a bit crisper and keeps the butter sauce from burning on the bottom of the pan.  Bake until the mix is starting to brown.

Let it cool, if you can wait, and enjoy!

Fall is usually one of the best times of the year in Atlanta for riding.  Fall is usually dry and the temperatures are on the cooler side, making motorcycle riding very pleasant. This year has been different.  After record drought over the past couple of years we have been getting above average rainfall over the past months.  We have had weeks where it rained almost every day.  In September we had 12-18 inches of rain in a few days that caused terrible flooding in many parts of Atlanta.  Just last week a tropical storm came though and dropped another 3-4 inches two days.  This hasn’t been the greatest fall I can remember for motorcycle riding.

This past weekend we got some really nice weather.  The forecast was for temperatures in the middle 70s and sunny.  I couldn’t see wasting a nice day doing yard work or working around the house so we decided to take a day ride.  We rode up to Tellico Plains Tennessee to ride across the Cherohala Skyway.

The morning started out in the very low 40s but by 10:00 AM it was warming up quickly.  We bundled up and headed out at about 10:30.  We rode north on I-575 / GA 515 through Ellijay up to Blueridge, GA.  From there we took GA 5 up to Copperhill, TN.  Then TN 68 to Tellico Plains.  TN 68 is a twisty two lane highway that winds it way through numerous small towns and townships and up and down through the hills of Tennessee.

It took about two and a half hours to get to Tellico Plains.  Tellico Plains is a very pretty little town.   As the name implies it is on a plain of slightly rolling hills but looking to the east you can see the Great Smokey Mountains that are not far away.   We found our way to the downtown area, that wasn’t all that hard, and had a bite to eat in the bakery/internet café.  After lunch we checked out the Tellico Motorcycle Outfitters store.  Tellico Outfitters is a nice store with lots of motorcycle apparel and accessories.  They have riding jackets and pants and full riding suits as well as all manner of riding accessories.  There are also a number of motorcycle motels and resorts in Tellico Plains.  We saw a couple of them coming in on TN 68.  It would be a great place to do a overnight ride and explore the area on the bike.  Apparently there are a lot of motorcycles that come through there on the way up to the Skyway.

The owner of the Outfitter store told us about a side trip off the Skyway up to a waterfall.  About five miles up the Skyway from Tellico Plains is River Road, and 3 miles up River Road is the Bald River Falls.  River Road winds along the river that has numerous white water sections and lots of Kayakers and canoes.  We went as far at the falls but according to the GPS River Road winds its way all the way to the state line.  The falls were really flowing!  Tennessee has had a lot of rain too as evidenced by the amount of water coming over the falls.

Bald River Falls

From the falls we continued on our way up the Skyway, we kept climbing and climbing.  Tellico Plains is at an elevation of about 960 feet.  The Skyway climbs to over a mile high.  At one point I saw 5700 feet on the GPS.  I noticed that the difference in the Cherohala Skyway compared to say, the Blue Ridge Parkway, is that the Skyway isn’t surrounded by other mountains.  You can see for miles and miles from the scenic overlooks along the Cherohala!

Scenic overview on the Cherohala Skyway (Approx 2000' elev.)

The Skyway runs along the tops of the mountain ridges and winds back and forth.  Traveling east toward Robbinsville, North Carolina you actually travel in just about every direction of the compass.  Climbing higher and higher and seeing increasing greater views of the plains to the west and south, this is quite a ride.  I highly recommend it!  There are plenty of scenic overview stops along the Skyway to stop, rest, and have a look at the fantastic views.

We arrived in Robbinsville on the other end of the Skyway just after 4 in the afternoon.  It took longer than I thought it would to get across the Skyway and it was starting to cool off.  It was supposed to be in the middle 70’s but up at that altitude I don’t think it got too much over the middle 60’s.  At Robbinsville we picked up US 129 and then US 19 and headed southwest towards Andrews and Murphy North Carolina.  With it getting dark so early now, I put the hammer down once we hit the four lane section of US 19.  Passing Murphy and turning toward Georgia on Spur 60 we headed back toward GA 515.  One more stop for fuel and a couple of hours and we would be home.  Barbara was getting cold at this point, so I suggested that she put her Frog Toggs on to keep the wind off of her.  The Frog Toggs kept her warm on the cool ride home.  Frog Toggs are simply the best all around rain / warm suit that you can have for any kind of outdoor activity!

Once on 515 I set the cruise and we hammered home arriving home at about O’Dark Thirty.  This was the longest ride we have had in a while and we were both pretty tired when we got home.  But it was a good day ride, one of the best we had this year.

Ride Safe!

My friend Bob in Florida sent me this link to an article in Pravda titled  “The American Self Immolation, Truly a Sight to See”

The article is about how the USA is sowing the seeds of it’s own destruction with our current economic policies.  The author has a particularly interesting view on of the “Cap and Trade” legislation that has passed our House and is now in the Senate.  We can only hope that the Cap and Trade (or Cap and Tax as some people refer to it) dies in the Senate.  Many of the pundits say that Cap and Tax doesn’t have a chance of passing the Senate.  I hope so, as this bill would not only raise every citizen’s energy costs, it will add cost to every product that is produced or transported in the United States.

Back in the ’60s and ’70s I remember listening to Radio Moscow.  I got interested in Amateur Radio back in the middle 60’s and built a Knight Kit shortwave radio.  I had a wire antenna in the back yard and I used to love to listen to the shortwave broadcast band.  One of my favorites was Radio Moscow.  Why Radio Moscow?  First was, they had a big signal here in the US.  They were about the strongest signal on the  40 meter band.  I have no idea how much transmitter power they were running, but it had to be a bunch!  Second, they had a way of spinning their B.S. with such glowing terms that it made it sound almost glorious!  They were the masters of the propaganda of the time and it was quite entertaining listening!

The author draws a parallel to the way that the Soviet Union destroyed itself through its “economic folly.”  Well, the Russians, having been through the “socialist” phase, should recognize it coming in the United States.

Scary isn’t it?