Attorney: Bernard Madoff Will Not Attend Son’s Funeral

Having taken his own life, obviously due in part to his fathers lack of ethics. Bernard Madoff will not attend (or has attended, considering this is from news of past December). His claim is it is out of respect for the family, but the truth should seem a lot more obvious under the circumstances. In that he has made this decision, perhaps he should spend that time considering his distorted level of remorse for the people he .

The courts ,rather than allow him to remain comfortably in his cell, should be condemned to participating in the activities that he so callously robbed from his victims, and give him a better understanding of how many lives he took away with nothing more than a stroke of the pen.

Is he paying the costs of his incarceration, or just a further demonstration that the American people are paying tens of thousands of dollars to maintaining him in some 'country club' prison, while he should be out using muscles that have not been used for constructive pursuits in his lifetime.

One of those neck constraints that will deliver a life ending blast should he venture too far from his assigned location.

The Desire to End the Pain

It's not that I want to die. I no longer want to live.

Life continues to bring out the worst in me. Arrogant, depressed, obnoxious. And I let this irritablility turn into comments and emails. And as follish as any or all of them may be, they continue to gnaw at my insides. I am reaching a point where living like this will not, and can not, go on much longer.

Prayer to the Sleazy Dealer

A day existed in the past when you could go into Sears, and not only find a salesman, but one who could identify a screwdriver or hammer.

But the really disgusting people are those who feign friendship, and make promises they will never keep. Pride in a product has disappeared and chair-people of the board of large companies don't care as long as they get paid.

Harley-Davidson lost a customer this week. One who spent tens of thousands of dollars on high profit Harleys and merchandise. All because one cheap asshole wouldn't lift a finger after a sale was complete. Anyone know a good lawyer? It would be worth a lot to me to be able to sue the Sales Manager of the dealership that sold me my bike.

Each night I say my little prayer:
"When that asshole gets canned because you just can sell only so many Harleys in a shaky economy,
"Dear God, Help him to learn to say "Would you like fries with that?" in a courteous and polite fashion."

And Lord, when you cause the great decline to close dealers, keep the family owned ones, and obliterate those dealers run by cheap bastards. Obliterate them from the face of the earth so Harley riders will no longer be cursed by their ignorance and poor service. Who were all those angels singing "86 Crossroads HD"?

Thank you Lord, and feel free to ride any of my motorcycles anytime. Oh.... if I have not asked too much, oh Great One! If you happen to run into Dave and a pit of vipers handy, could you please just whisk him over the edge of the pit? Bless you.

One day I will learn that you should be kind to everyone. The evil ones will take care of themseves.

Zoe

Sometimes it is Zoe that keeps me alive... and Benjamin. Not much else...

Mackinac Bridge

Taken by the Mackinac Bridge in 2003. We thought he was a friend.

About 1,000 miles from home, he had a stroke. A mild one but it must have been frightening. We could have left him there in a hospital bed in the Upper Peninsula, but we didn't. Not even those to whom he had been frequently cruel and demeaning.

I don't like too many people on the passenger seat of my bike (I don't like too many people at all). It's like sharing toothbrushes. A personal thing. But I rode his wife the entire trip home, as we didn't think it safe for her to ride on his bike considering his condition.

The stroke must have affected the part of his brain that controls appreciation, tolerance and gratitude. If he had any, it was gone.

Nonetheless, even if the exact same situation recurred, I probably would have done the same thing. I have matured enough in my lifetime to realize I am not responsible for other people's shortcomings. I have not, however, been able to deal with the intense and persistent pain some people have caused me.

Scared and Alone

He doesn't know who wants to help him or who wants to bite his head off,

Harley Chrome

The mortorcycle these parts are on is a Harley Davisdon Custom Vehicle Operations Scremain' Eagle FLHTCUSE5 Electraglide Ultra Classic. It retails at $36,900. The missing chrome fell of the bike in the course of about three months while it was stored under its supplied cover in a garage. Crossroads HD, the selling dealership, wants $10,000+ to repair the motorcycle. Harley feels it should not be covered under warranty.

If you are reading this and are planning the purchase of a Harley or any accessories, you would be wise to give your business to someone other than Crossroads. Schaeffer's HD, a family owned busness, has always earned top marks in sales and service. Schoch is another family owned business, as is Dean's. All in the area. It's my understanding is the background of Crossroads owner is that of a user car salesman. Dealings there have that flavor. The customer is always at fault. And rather than support a customer having spent well over $100,000, they scurry off into their rat holes and cower at the thought that they would ever spend a dollar of their own to make things right for a customer.

Please pass this information along to people you care about who ride Harleys, and feel quality products, ethics and morals are more important than corporate greed and profits.

Innocence

For a fleeting period in our lives we were blessed with the gift of innocence. A time when concepts like cruelty and bigotry were unknown do us.

The Frog

Didn't work last time.

Duck

Babar

Once a Year

Seems like once every few years I find an old blog and record my degree of depression. Took a while to even find this

Pagoda Run

Ouch!

That's gotta sting a little...



Crashes Compilation - video powered by Metacafe

John Mark Karr Not Charged in JonBenet Murder

Gee, what a surprise! The question remains as to if there was any relationship between Karr and the Ramseys, and was his confession something more than that of an uninvolved attention seeker?

The media has already devoted far too much attention to recent events. I mean, we even found out what Karr was having for dinner on his flight back to the US. Will they let this die quietly, or will some wily reporter discover there is more to this story than meets the eye.

Guitar

The NY Times article behind this video is quite interesting, and worth reading.

Here's the link: Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last

Today's Depression Threat Level

weltschmerz (VELT-shmerts) noun

World weariness; pessimism, apathy, or sadness felt at the difference between physical reality and the ideal state.
[From German Weltschmerz, from Welt (world) + Schmerz (pain).]

The Far Side

I ran across one of my favorites tonighrt while I was cleaning up:

Cultivating Stem Cells

If they can do it without destroying embryos, is that better for the Democrats or Republicans?