The Rosewood Report – If you never read of the accounts that happened this will make for a good read.

I bought this in 1985 when I was still in the Army. The bike saw most of Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Florida, and some of Georgia, Indiana, and Oklahoma. I got a lot of smiles out of that bike. Compared to what I ride today it was a basic bike but I’d sure give anything to spend a day out on it again. If your a biker you understand, the smells, sounds, and scenery are awesome when your on a bike. Things you’d never notice in a car you’ll notice on the bike. Just looking at the picture brings back so many memories of places I’ve been and people I’ve meet and visited on it. So many days in the Army where all I had was $10 and went and spent the whole day until dark out riding through Kansas. Then the 11 day ride I took from Kansas to Kentucky and forgot to tell Mom what I was doing. Of course never called home and got caught in a few storms and tornado. lol

Awesome days…. I don’t think my new bike will ever bring carefree memories like that Kaw 454 did.

1. Why doesn’t McDonald’s sell hotdogs?
2. At a movie theater which arm rest is yours?
3. Where does the toetag go on a dead person if they don’t have toes?
4. Why do doctors leave the room when you change? They’re going to see you naked anyway.
5. Why is there a disclaimer on the Allstate Auto Insurance commericals that says “Not available in all states”?
6. If you dug a hole through the center of the earth,and jumped in, would you stay at the center because of gravity?
7. If you are asked to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and your the main witness, what if you say “no”?
8. Do they bury people with their braces on?
9. How far east can you go before you’re heading west?
10. Do dentists go to other dentists or do they just do it themselves?
11. If you were to get drunk in a country where the drinking limit is under 21, and went to the states and were still over the limit, could they arrest you for underage drinking even though you did not do the drinking in the states.
12. Why do people think that swaying their arm back and forth would change the direction of a bowling ball?
13. If girls with large breasts work at Hooters, then do girls with one leg work at IHOP?
14. Why is it that everyone driving faster than you is considered an idiot and everyone driving slower than you is a moron?
15. Why does grape flavor smell the way it is when actual grapes don’t taste or smell anything like it.
16. Is it rude for a deaf person to talk (sign) with their mouth full of food?
17. What’s the difference between normal ketchup and fancy ketchup?
18. If a transvesite goes missing, would youu put their face on a carton of Half and Half?
19. When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?
20. Are eyebrows considered facial hair?
21. If a baby’s leg pops out at 11:59PM but his head doesn’t come out until 12:01, which day was he born on?
22. In the song Yankee Doodle, is he calling the horse or the feather “macaroni”?
23. Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
24. Can you daydream at night?
25. Can crop circles be square?
26. If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don’t they fall through the floor?
27. Is it legal to travel down a road in reverse, as long as your following the direction of the traffic?
28. When Atheists go to court, do they have to swear on the bible?
29. Why is vanilla ice cream white when vanilla extract is brown?
30. Can animals commit suicide?
31. What do you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?
32. If a doctor suddenly had a heart attack while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor or the patient?
33. How can something be “new” and “improved”? if it’s new, what was it improving on?
34. Why is it that when we “skate on thin ice”, we can “get in hot water”?
35. Why do people say beans beans the magical fruit when beans are vegetables?
36. If laughter is the best medicine, who’s the idiot who said they ‘died laughing’?
37. If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
38. Why are the little styrofoam pieces called peanuts?
39. Why does the Easter bunny carry eggs? Rabbits don’t lay eggs.
40. Do siamese twins pay for one ticket or two tickets when they go to movies and concerts?
41. Why does caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing?
42. Can a short person “talk down” to a taller person?
43. If a bald person works as a chef at a restaurant, do they have to wear a hairnet?
44. If milk goes bad if not refrigerated, does it go bad if the cow isnt refrigerated?
45. Do prison buses have emergency exits?
46. Can a black person join the kkk?
47. When lightning strikes the ocean why don’t all the fish die?
48. When there’s two men who “get married”, do they both go to the same bachelor party?
49. If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack should they save him?
50. Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
51. Do Jewish vampires avoid crosses or Stars of David?
52. If London Bridge is standing why is there a song about it falling down?
53. Why is it that before 9/11 they always showed the emergency broadcast system test, and on 9/11 they never used it?
54. If a nursing mother had her nipples pierced would the milk come out of all three holes?
55. If a stripper gets breast implants can she write it off on her taxes as a business expense?
56. Why do we sing “Rock a bye baby” to lull a baby to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle on the ground?
57. If parents say, “Never take candy from strangers” then why do we celebrate Halloween?
58. Do the minutes on the movie boxes include the previews, credits, and special features, or just the movie itself?
59. What does PU stand for (as in “PU, that stinks!”)?
60. Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?
61. Can cannibals be arrested for being under the influence of alcohol (e.g. drunk-driving) if they have eaten someone who was drunk?
62. What is the stage of a reptile when it has eggs in it but they haven’t been laid. Are they pregnant?
63. If Mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?
64. Why do people never say “it’s only a game” when they’re winning?
65. If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?
66. Why is it called a funny bone, when if you hit it, it’s not funny at all?
67. Why do dogs like the smell of other dogs butts?
68. Do Chinese people get English sayings tattooed on their bodies?
69. Do glow-in-the-dark objects stop glowing when somebody turns the lights on?
70. If someone has their nose pierced, have a cold, and take thier nose ring out. Does snot come out of the piercing hole?
71. How come lemon washing up liquid contains real lemons, but lemon juice contains artificial flavorings.
72. Do you wake up or open your eyes first?
73. Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor but book publishers aren’t afraid to have a Chapter 11?
74. How do you handcuff a one-armed man?
75. If the FBI breaks your door down do they have to pay for it?
76. In some books, why do they have blank pages at the very end?
77. Why put a towel in the dirty clothes basket if when you get out of the shower you are clean?
78. What happens to an irrisitable force when it hits an immovable object?
79. If there’s a speed of sound and a speed of light is there a speed of smell?
80. Why do overalls have bel loops, since they are held up at the top by the straps?
81. Do the security guards at airports have to go through airport security when they get to work?
82. Why are all of the Harry Potter spells in Latin if they’re English?
83. What do Greeks say when they don’t understand something?
84. What happens if a queen gives birth to a pair of siamese twins? Who gets to be king?
85. Do all-boys schools have girls bathrooms? Conversely, do all-girls schools have boys bathrooms?
86. Are children who act in rated ‘R’ movies allowed to see them?
87. How come cats butts go up when you pet them?
88. How come you never see a billboard being put up by the highway?
89. Do the English people eat English muffins, or are they just called muffins?
90. How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t grow in it?
91. Why do they call it the Department of Interior when they are in charge of everything outdoors?
92. Why does Jello have a smell when you add the powder in the water, but when it “gels” the smell is gone?
93. Why are dogs noses always wet?
94. Why do people say “heads up” when you should duck?
95. Why is it OK for dudes to slap other dudes’ asses in football, but not in any other situation?
96. Why does triangularly cut bread taste better than square bread?
97. If one man says, “it was an uphill battle,” and another says, “it went downhill from there,” how could they both be having troubles?
98. Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
99. At what point in man’s evolution did he start wiping his ass?
100. Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
101. Why do superheros wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes?
102. If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you complain to?
103. When sign makers go on strike, is anything written on their signs?
104. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
105. Why Does Pluto Live in a dog house, eat dog food, etc. but Goofy, who is also a dog, lives in a condo and drives a car?
106. If you blew a bubble in space would it pop?
107. How come all of the planets are spherical?
108. How did the first women ever to shave their legs know that the skin wouldn’t just peel right off?
109. when a pregnant lady has twins, is there 1 or 2 umbilical cords?
110. Why doesn’t Winnie the Pooh ever get stung by the bees he messes with?
111. Why do they put holes in crackers?
112. Can you still say “Put it where the sun don’t shine ” on a nude beach?
113. What do people in China call their good plates?
114. How come toy hippos are always blue, or purple, when real hippos are brown?
115. Why don’t woodpeckers get headaches when they slam their head on a tree all day?
116. If someone owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way to the center of the earth?
117. Why do they call him Donkey Kong if he is not a donkey?
118. Why do they say a football team is the ‘world champion’ when they don’t play anybody outside the US?
119. Do stuttering people stutter when they’re thinking to themselves?
120. If you put a chameleon in a room full of mirrors, what color would it turn?
121. What are the handles for corn on the cob called?
122. Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
123. Why do we press the start button to turn off the computer?
124. Do your eyes change color when you die?
125. Were Mary and Joseph’s surname Christ before Jesus was born?
126. If a bunch of cats jump on top of each other, is it still called a dog pile?
127. Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?
128. In libraries, do they put the bible in the fiction or non-fiction section?
129. How old are you before it can be said you died of old age?
130. If K.F.C Stands for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Why do they play sweet home Alabama on the comercials?
131. If people with one arm go to get their nails done, do they pay half price?
132. What type of animal is Snuffaluffagus?
133. If you had a three story house and were in the second floor, isn’t it possible that you can be upstairs and downstairs at the same time?
134. Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?
135. If a king is gay and marries another guy what is that guy to the royal family?
136. Why do they call it “getting your dog fixed” if afterwards it doesn’t work anymore?
137. Does a ‘Marks-A-Lot’ marker, mark any more than a regular marker?
138. What happens when you put a lightsaber in water?
139. On Gilligan’s Island, how did Ginger have so many different outfits when they were only going on a 3 hour tour?
140. If I had my legs amputated, would I have to change my height and weight on my driver’s license?
141. If nobody buys a ticket to a movie do they still show it?
142. How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
143. Do movie producers still say lights, camera, and action when it is a dark scene?
144. What do you call male ballerinas?
145. How does Freddy Kruger wipe his butt?
146. Why people are so scared of mice,which are much smaller than us, when no one seems to be scared of Micky Mouse, who is bigger than us?
147. Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?
148. Why are plastic bears the only animal you can get honey from? Why can’t you get honey from a plastic bee?
149. When your photo is taken for your driver’s license, why do they tell you to smile? If you are stopped by the police and asked for your license, are you going to be smiling?
150. Do butterflies remember life as a caterpillar?
151. If you undergo chemotherapy do you lose your pubic hairs?
152. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
153. Why does toilet bowl cleaner only come in the color blue?
154. What happens when you put hand sanitizer on a place other then your hand?
155. Why are women and men’s shoe sizes different?
156. Can you “stare off into space” when you’re in space?
157. Where do people in Hell tell other people to go?
158. Is “vice-versa” to a dyslexic just plain redundant?
159. How come you can kill a deer and put it up on your wall. but it’s illegal to keep one as a pet?
160. Why do we say we’re head over heels when we’re happy? Isn’t that the way we normally are?
161. If prunes are dehydrated plums, where does prune juice come from?
162. Is it appropriate to say “good mourning” at a funeral?
163. If there’s an exception to every rule, is there an exception to that rule?
164. When you’re caught “between a rock and a hard place”, is the rock not hard?
165. Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?
166. Doesn’t a lightning rod on top of church show a lack of faith?
167. Who coined the phrase, ‘coined the phrase?’
168. If there were a thousand seaguls in an airplane while its flying, each weighing two pounds a piece, but they were all flying in the airplane, would the airplane weigh 2000 pounds more?
169. Why do they call steam rollers, steam rollers? They don’t produce, get rid of, or have anythong to do with steam
170. What is another word for “thesaurus”?

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 4 March, 1861

There was never such a thing as freedom of speech. In order to speak freely you had to have access to a printing press, a newspaper, a radio or a TV station. And everywhere you had to get past the editors. Only an elite ever did ? the articulate and well-behaved representatives of ordinary people. But ordinary people themselves never had a chance to speak publicly.

Not until now. Today the Internet revolution ? led by a ragtag army of bloggers ? has given us all a chance to be irreverent, blasphemous and ungrammatical in public. We can reveal secrets, blow whistles, spill beans, or just make stuff up.Of course the old elites don’t like it. Of course they really, really hate it. Blogs are shut down left, right and center, and bloggers are silenced, reprimanded and fired from their jobs. Suddenlymodern liberal society reveals a repressive face few of us knew existed.

Should we behave ourselves? Should we fall silent? Hell no! Let’s call them on their hypocrisy. Let’s demand that modern liberal society lives by the principles it claims to embrace. Bloggers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your gags.

I am not a good photographer and realize I’ll never make a living at it, and really don’t want to. I don’t take photos to be popular, famous, or even cool. I take photos because I love doing it. I like the photos and my family may like some so to me that’s what is important. I’m a Christian and believe “to each their own. “What goes around comes around” has always held true with me.

I’m happily married with 2 awesome boys. I’m friends with young, old, male, female, mixed, photographers. If I comment of your photo it’s not because of who you are it’s because I like your photo(s).

I take a lot of photos because I don’t discriminate on what I’m shooting. I might take a photo of my dog, tree, ferret, flower, kids, young people, old people, bugs, whatever I see. I’d like to think of being a swimsuit photographer but it’s not me. I ride a motorcycle and stop when I want to take a picture, or to eat (which usually comes first). LOL When I have to take photo because I have to, I’ll quit.
Some people ask, have you read the owner’s manual of your camera… duh NO! Only sissy do that right? I have read a couple photography manuals, and yes I’ve read through the manuals. I play with Photoshop CS4, with a few nice plug-ins. I have a DSLR Canon XT, Canon 770IS for my pocket camera, and my old trusty Olympus C5050 WZ. Oh I also have a Flip Mino HD but it doesn’t get much use but it’s nice to have. You’ll typically never catch me without a camera in hand or pocket.

You may take better photos than I do but are you having FUN doing it? It’s not about the quality of photos but the smiles per photo.

I love to read, play on the internet (flickr), and watching movies (preferably Sci-Fi), riding motorcycles, and seeing whatever there is to see. I love anywhere NEW that I haven’t been before.

When was the last time you simply stared at a tree, a cloud or a flower without trying to analyze or understand, instead just being glad that they are? Notice the world around you, especially the small things you’ve been overlooking since childhood.

*  What odors can you smell around you at this moment? Can you push past the coffee machine, the new furniture smell and notice other less invasive odors? Is there a plant near you perhaps, or a lovely perfume lingering on the air? At lunchtime, go for a walk and smell the fragrances of the local streets, a park, the waterfront. Focus on your sense of smell.

*  What can you see? Not just the cubicle walls and your neighboring co-workers. Can you see the sky, see across a street, or see a beautiful plant in the office? Can you see beyond what is in front of you to things that really matter to your mind?

*  What can you sense? The hum of machines, the working of other people, the vibrations of other people’s thoughts?

*  What can you touch? What textures, patterns and surfaces around you awaken a new approach to seeing your daily seat and desk? Find something new about the usual dullness you feel confronted by.

Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.