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2009-11-26T01:11:00.002-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving

Just wanted to wish everybody a Happy and safe Thanksgiving tomorrow...ummm, errr, today actually. Is it really 1:13 in the morning??
Got lost with my research and emailings about engines and such.

Motorbike

2009-11-25T11:49:00.002-05:00

Great news! EZ Motorbike, the premier maker of motorized bicycles, has opened EZ Motorbikes of Greensboro just in time for the holidays!

2009-03-01T20:18:00.002-05:00

Breast Cancer Relief,
Wicked Women Choppers

I've made my pledge to the Breast Cancer Relief Foundation,
got my ribbon, but before I give will check the BBB.

No relation to the above mentioned foundation but there was an article done a few years ago when I was with GarageChoppers. Our then lady staff member, Robin "MadRocka" Fox, did up a great article on a women who not only rode motorcycles but built them as well. The woman is Christine Vaughn and she is the CEO, designer, fabricator, builder and all around visionary plus owner of www.wickedwomenchoppers.com in Herrin, Il.
Why does all of this remind me of her and the motorcycle company that she fills so many boots with? Because she built a motorcycle that tours the U.S of A to bring this whole Breast Cancer awareness to the forefront to both men and women alike. Though I've never met her in person, Robin did a write up that gave insight into this driven lady with a knack for getting things done in the world of motorcycles and beyond. I only wish that the article was still available for you to read.
One thing is for sure though, this lady earns respect wherever she goes and you should check her out.

YouLicense.com, A Better Way To Share Music Online

2008-10-25T14:50:00.000-04:00

First there was file sharing-- great for music fans but lousy for most musicians. You see, despite claims to the contrary free music sharing has taken money from the pockets of most of the musicians whose music is shared online. Yes, there have been success stories but most were failures for the musicians themselves. Please continue reading...

Sarah Palin Caught Ripping-off Alaskan Taxpayers

2008-10-22T19:05:00.001-04:00

Which begs the question, "Will she also rip-off America if elected?

Changing travel records, claiming travel expenses while sleeping at home and defrauding the IRS are among the latest problems faced by the McCain/Palin ticket. From tonight's news: Read the full story.

A Melancholy Moment - Written from a Former Office

2008-10-22T00:51:00.001-04:00

I’m in my office on an autumn Monday. Outside the seasons go round and round. Despite my stuckness inside, God gives me joy looking through a window to His world out there. And I take moments to soak it in. As I kick back in my chair, a window pane neatly frames one tree, one visually noisy maple tree across the parking lot. Thankfully, due to my angle of view, I can see neither the parking lot nor the cars. It is as if they are not even there. The morning sun shining from behind me spotlights the tree. For a blessed moment, the tree is my entire world.

By what grace do I get to sit here and fill my sight with all shades of orange? I don’t know the names for the different ways orange looks, and I am not really interested in a taxonomy of color. But the effect of all the almost-red to almost-yellow, mixed up and curled around together in patterns no one would have thought of—the effect is joy for me. By what love do I get to feel this fullness?

But why do joy and sadness feel so much alike? I had a dream last night I can’t remember. For some reason in the dream, I wept and moaned with sadness. Then I awoke, and felt no sadness at all, yet I remembered feeling that way in the dream, even though I don’t know why I did. The joy I feel before this tree reminds me of the sadness I felt in the dream. Every few seconds, a leaf falls almost straight down in the still air. In the petiole of the leaf, right where it joins the stem, the cells commit suicide, and the leaf breaks off. One falls, then another, then another, and then they're gone. No more orange. No more blast of morning color to greet me as I open my office door and settle into my chair.

This beauty like all beauty does not last. Soon I will see through the trunks and branches to the road and have to watch cars. I’ve never had joy over watching a car. Stop falling leaves! Don’t go away, swathes of orange! Don’t grow up, children! Don’t move away, friend! Oh that I could freeze-frame the moment! No wonder joy and sadness go together.

Once, when I was younger, I had no place to hang my happiness, no place to beam my joy, no place to pour my sadness. I was alone in the universe. We were all alone in the universe. And then I knew I wasn’t alone after all. There was One who brooded over this bent world. Before I didn’t know what to do with all the joys that rose up within me. Maybe if I studied and dissected and taxonomized my joy would be complete. Then I learned simply to say, “Thank you.” It made all the difference.

I sat beside the creek at English L’Abri and I wept, and laughed, and finally knew that the sadness and joy would find fulfillment one day. I sang a few hymn lines that came to mind. Soon all would be right, and creation would no longer groan, nor would I groan with it and have dreams of sadness. No more by its rhythms and changes and fading beauties would creation stir up longings for wholeness and completeness and permanency. Is that what it does? Does the longing of creation in fact mirror our own longings?

I think when I sit by a tree in the New Earth I will have only joy. But will there not still be seasons, and fadings, and leafings, and disappearings? Will the New Earth be tilted on its axis? It’s hard to imagine life without changes. But it’s hard for me to imagine changes without sorrows. Will the fleeting color of the tree, which now signals shorter days and a kind of dying, then no longer cause a pang of emptiness along with the well spring of joy? I can’t imagine that such feelings will be allowed, will be possible, in the New Earth and New Heaven. Yet today, looking out my window, I can’t imagine not feeling the pang with the pleasure. Will the Lord’s light, by which it says we shall see, somehow bend and change, grow and fade, to make seasons? I hope so. Will diversity and richness end? I think not. As to how it will work, as to how there will be changing and diversity and leafing and unleafing I do not know. But I look forward to seeing. Somehow, however it works, all will be good and whole and full and complete. There will be no more groaning of creation. There will be no more sadness in dreams. There will be no more tears. Joy without sadness. Joy unmixed. It awaits.

Paul And Leslie Gydos Are Pregnant

2008-10-13T20:45:00.000-04:00

And expecting twins! Paul is the founder of Blogsboro's project to provide free laptops to Greensboro students documented at MiniLini.com and has started posting his experiences of fatherhood to FirstFatherhood.com. Please continue reading...

BBC Radio Reads BloggingPoet.com

2008-10-09T21:09:00.001-04:00

I got an e-mail from BBC Radio's Andrea Lisher today asking me to come on a show titled, Is Poetry Pointless, to participate in a telephoned debate. Only problem is-- I didn't get off work in time to answer Andrea's e-mail before the show aired at 11:30 PM UK time-- 3:30 in my time zone. Please continue reading...

Helping Police Go Green

2008-10-07T20:38:00.000-04:00

With the rising cost of fuel and the current economy wrecking havoc with police department budgets everywhere it's good to know police now have fuel efficient and green options to allow them to continue to do their jobs. Tonight I bring you news of 2 of the most fuel efficient cars ever made available to police departments. Please continue reading...

Joel Gillespie Joins Blogsboro.net

2008-10-07T06:47:00.000-04:00

Greensboro's Rev Joel Gillespie has consented to join the independent media network, Blogsboro.net (not the real website) that is set to launch soon. To learn more about the goals of Blogsboro.net read Blogsboro.net: Blogsboro Is Growing. Please continue reading...

Open your heart $ wallet

2008-10-03T17:36:00.001-04:00

My heart bleeds when I see signs like this.

McCain's Brain Part 3

2008-10-01T19:29:00.000-04:00

Part 3 of the video series from the Yellow Dog for President Campaign. Please continue reading

Sigh...

2008-10-01T19:23:00.000-04:00

If you're going to be a bigot, the least you could do is learn spell properly. What is the other half of Obama? Polyester? Please continue reading

Save the crooks

2008-09-30T19:47:00.001-04:00

Don't you just want to reach into your wallet and help these poor fellows?: Please continue reading...

Is The Internet Contributing To The Dumbing-down Of Americans?

2008-09-30T19:35:00.001-04:00

And the world?

Historically the Main Stream Media in America has worked either deliberately or by accident to dumb-down Americans as the MSM continues its search for the lowest common denominator and largest possible audience. Having said that I can't help but wonder if the Internet has taken on the same attributes. Please continue reading...

2008-09-26T20:39:00.003-04:00

Driving to Work

I'm on the road everyday for an hour and a half, this get can get tiring to say the least. I, like most everyone else, have been feeling the strain and it's a big pain in the gas. Being that my son is a tad larger than he was when I bought my Ford Ranger, it was time to move up a notch in vehicle size. One of my brothers moved over seas and made me a deal on his truck I couldn't pass up. The larger truck and it's small V-8 is supposed to get better mileage than my 4 X 4 Ranger was with the 4.0 V6. Well, it's getting close but not what the stats during my research showed it should be getting. Actually it should be getting 2 mpg better but so far it's been more attune to 2 mpg worse. That's alright though as I believe I know what the problem is and I just need to spend a few hundred to fix it. The good thing about this newer truck is I was able to pay cash for it just as I did for my Harley. Never in my life have I been able to buy a well taken care of vehicle for cash and certainly not two ... within six weeks of each other.
Before I purchased the truck I have now, people kept telling me to buy a new vehicle that would get better fuel mileage but my thoughts in these times of turmoil were these:
1) A new vehicle means locking into payments for five or six years.
2) a new vehicle means higher insurance payments for five or six years.
3) even with having a new vehicle with better fuel mileage I still have to buy fuel.
4) A new vehicle loses several thousand dollars of value as soon as you drive it off the lot.
5) If for some unforeseen reason with the economy how it is I can't keep up the payment then what?
6) At my age now, which ain't that old, I don't get into that new car gotta have it bug to look successful or whatever else it was in my youth that was there.
No, today I just want something that's safe, dependable, not bad on the eyes, and is paid for in full. (That's what my wife wanted to but she got me instead).
The conclusion I came to was that a new car purchase to save me on fuel costs would actually cost me more - thousands more. And how else might I be able to lower my fuel cost's and driving time? Look for something closer to home even if it means a slight cut in pay as the fuel savings will offset the pay difference. And the big plus is ... I can ride my motorcycle.

Why Roosters Are Smarter Than Politicians

2008-09-22T06:14:00.000-04:00

Another Day Begins

"It's morning, it's morning,"
The rooster crows to say.
"Time to scratch and peck for worms, Please continue reading.

Produce A Pic Launches, Helps Independent Filmmakers in Greensboro

2008-09-22T06:05:00.000-04:00

The innovative website for independent filmmaking ProduceAPic.com launched today, which owner and developer Chris Walker describes as a “fun and easy way for anyone who is into movies to get involved with filmmaking process in a unique way”. Produce A Pic sells Film Promo Pacs at $25 each for films currently in pre-production.

By purchasing a Film Promo Pac of your choice you become a member of the Film Team for that movie. “The Film Promo Pacs allow anyone who loves movies the chance to get involved with a film project they like and believe has potential,” says Walker. The Promo Pac is a combination if Film Team membership and pre-purchase of a Special Edition DVD, which allows purchasers to develop, promote and market the film project of their choice. Please continue reading.

Clicksor Leaves Me Click Sore

2008-09-21T21:32:00.001-04:00

Perhaps you noticed the green links and little green boxes that appear when you mouse over the green links are no more. Frankly I found them to be very annoying (as are all such tricks including those preview boxes on many Wordpress blogs) but Clicksore (Clicksor.com) claimed we'd earn money for putting up with their annoying little boxes.

Then came the e-mail telling me we had been dropped. Please continue reading.

Federal Bailouts Too Little, Too Late

2008-09-21T19:51:00.000-04:00

I realize that figures like $700 billion hardly seem like too little but the fact is: For most working class Americans and impoverished people around the world $700 billion is nothing like the amount of money it will take to save the World Economy. From today's news:

"WASHINGTON The Bush administration insisted on Sunday that Congress must move quickly to approve what one lawmaker called the "mother of all bailouts" - a $700 billion proposal to buy a mountain of bad mortgage debt in an effort to unfreeze the nation's credit markets." Please continue reading.

Photos: Chickmahall Under Construction

2008-09-21T19:01:00.004-04:00

I'm sure some of my readers are tired of the Greensboro Chicken Reports and of hearing of all things foul but I'm still enjoying the eggs of their labor and will continue to tell you about Gus, Elizabeth, BB, Snow White and Nellie so get over it or wait until I do.

The photo you see below of of the new Chickmahall--a modular home-- with its earth tone concrete block foundation and steel construction built in its entirety of things other people throw away. Next I'll be installing a new trussed roof with overhangs and curtains that roll down to protect my foul from foul weather। When all is completed I will remove the wheels. Please continue reading.

How To Join

2008-09-21T09:54:00.006-04:00

Joining the Blogsboro Network is easy if you're up to the task. Blogsboro is looking for independent voices in news and entertainment from around the world empathizing the great unknowns.

Begin by copying and pasting the html code into the top fold of your blog(s). It should look like this:

Step 2 is to send an e-mail to idleblogs (AT) yahoo.com with the words, "Applying to Blogsboro.net" in the subject line. Please include the URL and/or domain name of your blogs. Bloggers with more than one blog are welcome to submit all their blogs provided each blog submitted bears the Blogsboro.net logo in the top fold.

Soon thereafter we'll reply with a yes or no answer and if you are chosen, info on how to post to Blogsboro.net.

Blogsboro Network Sponsors

2008-09-21T09:31:00.002-04:00

This page will contain links to Blogsboro Network Sponsor websites.

About The Blogsboro Network

2008-09-21T09:01:00.002-04:00

The Blogsboro Network is true indie media with no controls on content provided by independent writers, reporters, bloggers, filmmakers, poets, cartoonists, photographers and others. The network is a real alternative to the main stream entertainment and news industry made up of responsible and creative people from around the world. Simply clicking on the title of any excerpt will direct you to the entire article.

Yes, the Blogsboro Network (Blogsboro.net) is hosted on a free Blogger/Blogspot blog and is done so in the hopes that other groups will follow our lead into this indie media movement. As other groups rise to the challenge the Blogsboro Network will support their efforts. In the future Blogsboro.net might change to a different format but for now Blogger/Blogspot will do.

There are no comment features at Blogsboro.net. This is because the goal of Blogsboro,net is to amplify the voices of our individual members through manual aggregation of content from member sites with hyperlinks back to where each article excerpted can be found in its entirety. Having previously successfully increased the audiences of the members of the Blogsboro Poetry Club it is now Blogsboro's goal to give voice to other genres using existing technology.

Each member of Blogsboro.net has their own blog that may or may not be a part of another indie network. Most members were specifically invited to become members but until our goal of 100 indie bloggers is complete we will consider your applications to idleblogs (AT) yahoo.com Membership is subject to change as needed with the rules to be determined as we learn better what does and doesn't work.

Member blogs will display the Blogsboro.net logo in the top fold of their blog and are responsible for manually posting excerpts of their original content with hyperlinks to where their original content can be viewed.

Blogsboro.net was founded by Billy Jones, Verona Botsford, Danny Bayer, and Budd and Tina Wilkins of Blogsboro.com and is our way of spreading our success to the world.

Yellow Dog Vows To Sign Co-operation Agreement

2008-09-15T05:54:00.001-04:00

Earlier today, Blogsboro Network reporters in Galveston, Texas caught up with Presidental candidate, Yellow Dog as she was dragging a victim of Hurricane Ike from the murky waters flowing along a downtown Galveston street.

Yellow Dog has spent most of the 2008 campaign deployed to various natural disasters as a member of the United States Coast Guard Reserves. Please continue reading.

The Stone Reader

2008-09-15T05:51:00.002-04:00

One Man's Epic Quest To Get Stones

Tina and I recently watched a fascinating little documentary (okay, it wasn't really so little, with a running time just over two hours) called The Stone Reader. The filmmaker, Mark Moskowitz, a commercial producer by day, is in his spare time a voracious reader. On one of his many business trips he finally picks up and reads in its entirety a book he had originally purchased way back in 1972 after reading a glowing review in the New York Times Book Review, had started and never finished. That book was called... Please continue reading.

The Jayhawks

2008-09-15T05:46:00.002-04:00

I've been driving around for the last couple of days listening to the Jayhawk's 1995 Cd "Tomorrow the Green Grass." I've had it for years, but didn't listen to it all the way through until my girlfriend and I drove down to Charlotte for a friend's wedding last spring: Please continue reading.

Studies in Politics and Redneck Culture

2008-09-15T05:41:00.001-04:00

I was shocked to see that people in the UK are reading about rednecks and their influence on the US election.

That article prompted me to do more research on the Scots-Irish, who are said to be the ancestors of today's rednecks.

This article, if I'm not mistaken, is also talking about rednecks but it calls them by another name: Authoritarians, which is much cooler.

Of course I'm interested in this because, resigned sigh, I am pretty much a descendant and member of this cultural designation. Please continue reading.

RAVING About The Raving Knaves

2008-09-15T05:37:00.002-04:00

The Raving Knaves at the Green Bean - Great Greensboro Band!

Our beloved blog partner, Danny, has a new band called The Raving Knaves. I tried to get out to see them once before and could not, but saw them tonight at the Green Bean. I haven't been so excited or felt so young in a long time. This band truly rocks and needs a CD (Danny- A CD PLEASE). This band has it all - kick-ass jams, English beat, original tunes with laugh-out loud lyrics, even a song with sort of a rockabilly swing that breaks into speed metal and back. Please continue reading.

Blogsboro.net: Blogsboro Is Growing

2008-09-14T21:50:00.003-04:00

Just minutes ago I secured the domain, Blogsboro.net as part of a planned expansion of the Blogsboro Network as we look to add many new independent voices to Team Blogsboro. If you'd like to know how to become a part of this exciting new indie network please e-mail me at idleblogs (AT) yahoo.com with links to your blog(s). Please continue reading...

Testing Blogsboro.net

2008-09-14T21:33:00.001-04:00

Coming soon, 100 of the greatest indie bloggers from around the world.