I saw you, hug your purse closer to you in the Grocery store line. But, you didn't see me, put an extra $10.00 in the Collection plate last Sunday.
I saw you, pull your child closer when we passed Each other on the sidewalk. But, you didn't see me, playing Santa at the local Mall.
I saw you, change your mind about going into the Restaurant. But, you didn't see me, attending a meeting to raise More money for the hurricane relief.
I saw you, roll up your window and shake your head When I rode by. But, you didn't see me, riding behind you when you Flicked your Cigarette butt out the car window.
I saw you, frown at me when I smiled at your Children. But, you didn't see me, when I took time off from Work to run toys to the homeless.
I saw you, stare at my long hair. But, you didn't see me, and my friends cut ten Inches off for Locks of Love.
I saw you, roll your eyes at our leather jackets and Gloves. But, you didn't see me, and my brothers donate our Old ones to those that had none.
I saw you, look in fright at my tattoos. But, you didn't see me, cry as my children were born And have their name written over my heart.
I saw you, change lanes while rushing off to go Somewhere. But, you didn't see me, going home to be with my Family.
I saw you, complain about how loud and noisy our Bikes can be. But, you didn't see me, when you were changing the CD and drifted into my lane.
I saw you, yelling at your kids in the car. But, you didn't see me, pat my child's hands, Knowing he was safe behind me.
I saw you, reading the newspaper or map as you drove Down the road. But, you didn't see me, squeeze my wife's leg when She told me to take the next turn. I saw you, race down the road in the rain. But, you didn't see me, get soaked to the skin so my Son could have the car to go on his date.
I saw you, run the yellow light just to save a few Minutes of time. But, you didn't see me, trying to turn right. I saw you, cut me off because you needed to be in The lane I was in. But, you didn't see me, leave the road.
I saw you, waiting impatiently for my friends to Pass. But, you didn't see me. I wasn't there.
I saw you, go home to your family. But, you didn't see me. Because, I died that day you cut me off.
I was just a biker. A person with friends and a Family. But, you didn't see me.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, November 07, 2008
OJ & the Devil
One day in the future, OJ Simpson has a heart-attack and dies.He immediately goes to hell, where the devil is waiting for him. 'I don't know what to do here,' says the devil. 'You are on my list,but I have no room for you. You definitely have to stay here, so I'll tellyou what I'm going to do. I've got a couple of folks here who weren't quite as bad as you. I'll let one of them go, but you have to take their place. I'll even let YOU decide who leaves.'OJ thought that sounded pretty good, so the devil opened the door to the first room. In it was Ted Kennedy and a large pool of water. Ted kept diving in,and surfacing, empty handed. Over, and over, and over he dove in and surfaced with nothing. Such was his fate in hell. 'No,' OJ said. 'I don't think so. I'm not a good swimmer, and I don'tthink I could do that all day long.'The devil led him to the door of the next room. In it was Al Gore with a sledgehammer and a room full of rocks. All hedid was swing that hammer, time after time afterTime. 'No, this is no good; I've got this problem with my shoulder. I would be in constant agony if all I could do was break rocks all day,' commented OJ. The devil opened a third door. Through it, OJ saw Bill Clinton, lying on the bed, his arms tied over his head, and his legs restrained in aspread-eagle pose. Bent over him was Monica Lewinsky, doing what she does best. OJ looked at this in shocked disbelief, and finally said, 'Yeah man, Ican handle this.'The devil smiled and said . . . . . (This is priceless)
'OK, Monica, you're free to go
'OK, Monica, you're free to go
Friday, September 12, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
My earliest memory was…. being about 3 years old seeing a cutout of a skeleton for Halloween.
At school I…. never paid attention.
My first relationship was .... not much of a relationship. I kissed Debbie in 4th grade
I don’t like talking about….How we hurt animals
My most treasured possession is…. photos from my childhood, my wife, dog, and motorcycle.
My mother always told me…. Not to run with scissors.
I wish I had… stayed in touch with my brothers and sisters more.
I wish I hadn’t…. quit college.
My most humiliating moment was…. Getting my mouth washed out with soap.
My happiest moment was…. the day my daughter was born.
At home I cook…. Usually on the BBQ.
My last meal would be…. Couple Lobster tail and filet minion, cole slaw, a few bottles of Sam Adams and a couple of Guiness Stouts. Cherry pie and ice cream.
I’m very bad at…. Remembering stuff.
When I was a child I wanted to…. Play center field for the New York Yankees.
The book that changed my life was…. I don’t read often enough to answer this.
It’s not fashionable but I love…. When I had long hair.
Friends say I am…. An ass.
The song I’d like played at my funeral is… Do the Hokey Pokey, Funeral for a Friend.
If only I could…. Have started riding motorcycles earlier in life.
The hardest thing I have ever done was… go to my grannies funeral.
What I don’t find amusing is…. War, poverty, homelessness, starvation.
The last belly laugh I had was…. watching my wife laugh so hard it made me laugh!
I’m always being asked…. To be more serious.
Cat or dog… dog.
If I wasn’t me, I’d like to be…. Racing motorcycles
At the moment I’m listening to…. The olympics
My favourite work of art is…. A picture of yellow done in green by my grandson.
My worst job was… 1 day at Burger King.
I often wonder…. How much longer I will be alive.
Feel free to copy these questions and post them on your site with your answers – will be interesting to read your comments.
At school I…. never paid attention.
My first relationship was .... not much of a relationship. I kissed Debbie in 4th grade
I don’t like talking about….How we hurt animals
My most treasured possession is…. photos from my childhood, my wife, dog, and motorcycle.
My mother always told me…. Not to run with scissors.
I wish I had… stayed in touch with my brothers and sisters more.
I wish I hadn’t…. quit college.
My most humiliating moment was…. Getting my mouth washed out with soap.
My happiest moment was…. the day my daughter was born.
At home I cook…. Usually on the BBQ.
My last meal would be…. Couple Lobster tail and filet minion, cole slaw, a few bottles of Sam Adams and a couple of Guiness Stouts. Cherry pie and ice cream.
I’m very bad at…. Remembering stuff.
When I was a child I wanted to…. Play center field for the New York Yankees.
The book that changed my life was…. I don’t read often enough to answer this.
It’s not fashionable but I love…. When I had long hair.
Friends say I am…. An ass.
The song I’d like played at my funeral is… Do the Hokey Pokey, Funeral for a Friend.
If only I could…. Have started riding motorcycles earlier in life.
The hardest thing I have ever done was… go to my grannies funeral.
What I don’t find amusing is…. War, poverty, homelessness, starvation.
The last belly laugh I had was…. watching my wife laugh so hard it made me laugh!
I’m always being asked…. To be more serious.
Cat or dog… dog.
If I wasn’t me, I’d like to be…. Racing motorcycles
At the moment I’m listening to…. The olympics
My favourite work of art is…. A picture of yellow done in green by my grandson.
My worst job was… 1 day at Burger King.
I often wonder…. How much longer I will be alive.
Feel free to copy these questions and post them on your site with your answers – will be interesting to read your comments.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Wake up America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eye scanning, palm prints..............BIG BROTHER 1984!!
Doesn't the government take enough from us already? How many more freedoms will we lose until people stand up and say NO?
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) -- The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
But it's an issue that raises major privacy concerns -- what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans.
The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information -- from palm prints to eye scans.
Kimberly Del Greco, the FBI's Biometric Services section chief, said adding to the database is "important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in."
But it's unnerving to privacy experts.
"It's the beginning of the surveillance society where you can be tracked anywhere, any time and all your movements, and eventually all your activities will be tracked and noted and correlated," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Project.
The FBI already has 55 million sets of fingerprints on file. In coming years, the bureau wants to compare palm prints, scars and tattoos, iris eye patterns, and facial shapes. The idea is to combine various pieces of biometric information to positively identify a potential suspect.
A lot will depend on how quickly technology is perfected, according to Thomas Bush, the FBI official in charge of the Clarksburg, West Virginia, facility where the FBI houses its current fingerprint database. Watch what the FBI hopes to gain »
"Fingerprints will still be the big player," Bush, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, told CNN.
But he added, "Whatever the biometric that comes down the road, we need to be able to plug that in and play."
First up, he said, are palm prints. The FBI has already begun collecting images and hopes to soon use these as an additional means of making identifications. Countries that are already using such images find 20 percent of their positive matches come from latent palm prints left at crime scenes, the FBI's Bush said.
The FBI has also started collecting mug shots and pictures of scars and tattoos. These images are being stored for now as the technology is fine-tuned. All of the FBI's biometric data is stored on computers 30-feet underground in the Clarksburg facility.
In addition, the FBI could soon start comparing people's eyes -- specifically the iris, or the colored part of an eye -- as part of its new biometrics program called Next Generation Identification.
Nearby, at West Virginia University's Center for Identification Technology Research, researchers are already testing some of these technologies that will ultimately be used by the FBI.
"The best increase in accuracy will come from fusing different biometrics together," said Bojan Cukic, the co-director of the center.
But while law enforcement officials are excited about the possibilities of these new technologies, privacy advocates are upset the FBI will be collecting so much personal information.
People who don't think mistakes are going to be made I don't think fly enough," said Steinhardt. He said thousands of mistakes have been made with the use of the so-called no-fly lists at airports -- and that giving law enforcement widespread data collection techniques should cause major privacy alarms.
"There are real consequences to people," Steinhardt said.
You don't have to be a criminal or a terrorist to be checked against the database. More than 55 percent of the checks the FBI runs involve criminal background checks for people applying for sensitive jobs in government or jobs working with vulnerable people such as children and the elderly, according to the FBI.
The FBI says it hasn't been saving the fingerprints for those checks, but that may change. The FBI plans a so-called "rap-back" service in which an employer could ask the FBI to keep the prints for an employee on file and let the employer know if the person ever has a brush with the law. The FBI says it will first have to clear hurdles with state privacy laws, and people would have to sign waivers allowing their information to be kept.
Critics say people are being forced to give up too much personal information. But Lawrence Hornak, the co-director of the research center at West Virginia University, said it could actually enhance people's privacy.
"It allows you to project your identity as being you," said Hornak. "And it allows people to avoid identity theft, things of that nature."
There remains the question of how reliable these new biometric technologies will be. A 2006 German study looking at facial recognition in a crowded train station found successful matches could be made 60 percent of the time during the day. But when lighting conditions worsened at night, the results shrank to a success rate of 10 to 20 percent.
As work on these technologies continues, researchers are quick to admit what's proven to be the most accurate so far. "Iris technology is perceived today, together with fingerprints, to be the most accurate," said Cukic.
But in the future all kinds of methods may be employed. Some researchers are looking at the way people walk as a possible additional means of identification.
The FBI says it will protect all this personal data and only collect information on criminals and those seeking sensitive jobs.
The ACLU's Steinhardt doesn't believe it will stop there.
"This had started out being a program to track or identify criminals," he said. "Now we're talking about large swaths of the population -- workers, volunteers in youth programs. Eventually, it's going to be everybody."
Doesn't the government take enough from us already? How many more freedoms will we lose until people stand up and say NO?
CLARKSBURG, West Virginia (CNN) -- The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
But it's an issue that raises major privacy concerns -- what one civil liberties expert says should concern all Americans.
The bureau is expected to announce in coming days the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to help create the database that will compile an array of biometric information -- from palm prints to eye scans.
Kimberly Del Greco, the FBI's Biometric Services section chief, said adding to the database is "important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in."
But it's unnerving to privacy experts.
"It's the beginning of the surveillance society where you can be tracked anywhere, any time and all your movements, and eventually all your activities will be tracked and noted and correlated," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Project.
The FBI already has 55 million sets of fingerprints on file. In coming years, the bureau wants to compare palm prints, scars and tattoos, iris eye patterns, and facial shapes. The idea is to combine various pieces of biometric information to positively identify a potential suspect.
A lot will depend on how quickly technology is perfected, according to Thomas Bush, the FBI official in charge of the Clarksburg, West Virginia, facility where the FBI houses its current fingerprint database. Watch what the FBI hopes to gain »
"Fingerprints will still be the big player," Bush, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, told CNN.
But he added, "Whatever the biometric that comes down the road, we need to be able to plug that in and play."
First up, he said, are palm prints. The FBI has already begun collecting images and hopes to soon use these as an additional means of making identifications. Countries that are already using such images find 20 percent of their positive matches come from latent palm prints left at crime scenes, the FBI's Bush said.
The FBI has also started collecting mug shots and pictures of scars and tattoos. These images are being stored for now as the technology is fine-tuned. All of the FBI's biometric data is stored on computers 30-feet underground in the Clarksburg facility.
In addition, the FBI could soon start comparing people's eyes -- specifically the iris, or the colored part of an eye -- as part of its new biometrics program called Next Generation Identification.
Nearby, at West Virginia University's Center for Identification Technology Research, researchers are already testing some of these technologies that will ultimately be used by the FBI.
"The best increase in accuracy will come from fusing different biometrics together," said Bojan Cukic, the co-director of the center.
But while law enforcement officials are excited about the possibilities of these new technologies, privacy advocates are upset the FBI will be collecting so much personal information.
People who don't think mistakes are going to be made I don't think fly enough," said Steinhardt. He said thousands of mistakes have been made with the use of the so-called no-fly lists at airports -- and that giving law enforcement widespread data collection techniques should cause major privacy alarms.
"There are real consequences to people," Steinhardt said.
You don't have to be a criminal or a terrorist to be checked against the database. More than 55 percent of the checks the FBI runs involve criminal background checks for people applying for sensitive jobs in government or jobs working with vulnerable people such as children and the elderly, according to the FBI.
The FBI says it hasn't been saving the fingerprints for those checks, but that may change. The FBI plans a so-called "rap-back" service in which an employer could ask the FBI to keep the prints for an employee on file and let the employer know if the person ever has a brush with the law. The FBI says it will first have to clear hurdles with state privacy laws, and people would have to sign waivers allowing their information to be kept.
Critics say people are being forced to give up too much personal information. But Lawrence Hornak, the co-director of the research center at West Virginia University, said it could actually enhance people's privacy.
"It allows you to project your identity as being you," said Hornak. "And it allows people to avoid identity theft, things of that nature."
There remains the question of how reliable these new biometric technologies will be. A 2006 German study looking at facial recognition in a crowded train station found successful matches could be made 60 percent of the time during the day. But when lighting conditions worsened at night, the results shrank to a success rate of 10 to 20 percent.
As work on these technologies continues, researchers are quick to admit what's proven to be the most accurate so far. "Iris technology is perceived today, together with fingerprints, to be the most accurate," said Cukic.
But in the future all kinds of methods may be employed. Some researchers are looking at the way people walk as a possible additional means of identification.
The FBI says it will protect all this personal data and only collect information on criminals and those seeking sensitive jobs.
The ACLU's Steinhardt doesn't believe it will stop there.
"This had started out being a program to track or identify criminals," he said. "Now we're talking about large swaths of the population -- workers, volunteers in youth programs. Eventually, it's going to be everybody."
Friday, January 18, 2008
Hans
Hans vas a Norvegian vorking at the fish plant up nort in Dulut vhen he accidently cut off all ten of his finkers.
He vent to da emergency room in the clinik and vhen he got dar, da Norsky doctor looked at Hans and said, "Let's hafe da finkers and I'll see vhat I can do." Hans said, "I hafen't got da finkers."
"Vhat do you mean, you hafen't got da finkers?" he asked.
"Lordy! It's 2007! Ve got microsurgery and all kinds of incredible techniques. I could hafe put dem back on and made you like new! Vhy didn't you brink da finkers?"
Hans responded: "How da fock vas I suppose to pick dem up?"
He vent to da emergency room in the clinik and vhen he got dar, da Norsky doctor looked at Hans and said, "Let's hafe da finkers and I'll see vhat I can do." Hans said, "I hafen't got da finkers."
"Vhat do you mean, you hafen't got da finkers?" he asked.
"Lordy! It's 2007! Ve got microsurgery and all kinds of incredible techniques. I could hafe put dem back on and made you like new! Vhy didn't you brink da finkers?"
Hans responded: "How da fock vas I suppose to pick dem up?"
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