Archive for October, 2009

The Perfect Storm

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It happens this Saturday, October 31st.  Halloween falls on a Saturday this year and it’s a particularly deadly night due to impaired drivers.
The ODOT Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data reveals a startling fact.   It turns out that 90% of the fatalities (10) on Halloween night (6:00 [...]

Reconsidering Happiness

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Keith Urban

Whoa!  My two previous posts on the current state of the Harley-Davidson state was clearly like a sad country song in an old rundown coffee shop, yup one of those “bummer zones” so, we need a change of scenery.
Speaking of, have you been to Nashville?  If [...]

Are You Significant

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This is the question I’ve been pondering over after having an opportunity to spend a couple of hours with “No Barriers” founder Neal Petersen.
To save you some time the short version of Neal’s story is — He is a black South African who grew up poor and disabled during [...]

Harley-Davidson Fanaticism Can’t Save Timpanogo

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GM, Rick Story and Owner, Dave Tuomisto

It’s starting to look a lot like a “job-less recovery”… and the R-word continues to take a toll as bankruptcy filings nationally surged past the 1 million mark during the first nine months of 2009.  Many states have similar statistics, but [...]

Motorcycle Freedom And NCOM

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NCOM Agenda — Portland, OR
Some things are immutable.  You’ve got to show up for appointments on time.
And speaking of meetings the National Coalition of Motorcyclists (NCOM (Region 1)) meeting and seminar is set for Saturday, October 17th in PORTLAND, OR.  The venue is the Holiday Inn (Portland [...]

Blogging Timeout

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According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95% of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to WOW (wallow [...]