2) The Archdiocese of Miami is reviving Operation Pedro Pan to bring Haitian orphans to the United States. The original plan saved over 14,000 Cuban children in the 1960s; I hope it can save even more kids now. Swampie has a report on the horrible conditions and the aid efforts in Haiti.
3) A special inquiry directed to Boy on a Bike: what do you think of this thing?
4) Gaffamaniac Martha Coakley strikes again. By the way, here’s a great visual symbol of her campaign from Red Mass Group:
5) Mark Steyn attempts to get his arms around the Scott Brown phenomenon (or would it be more accurate to refer to it as the Martha Coakley phenomenon?)
Gateway has a couple of good pieces on Coakley/Brown.
ReplyDeleteBrown's up 58%-42% in the absentee votes, one in five Democrats have jumped ship, and Coakley is being sued for defamation.
"It has a similar strength to steel, a similar weight to aluminum and the ride characteristics of carbon fiber," said Castillo. "The icing on the cake is that there is a sustainability factor to it as well."
ReplyDeleteI don't know what BoaB thinks about it, but I can tell you a bicycle made of bamboo, no matter how strong, is going to last one to two years, tops. Bamboo is a highly fibrous wood, and it just will not stand up to rough usage and weather.
(Go, Scott Brown!)
Rebecca: I don't know much about bicycle engineering, but I reckon your right (Up with Brown! Down with Coakley!)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the good news, bingbing.
Bamboo bike?
ReplyDeleteImagine the splinters if you stacked it!
What about when it sucks water up into it and warps?
At over $800 to buy one it'd be cheaper to buy the metal model which you know will last for many years.
Greenie enviroinmental wankers.
WV: voyowwor
The noise you make when your bamboo bike collapses mid-ride at 40kph.
Meh, a bamboo bike is about as eco-friendly as a load of Democrats flying to Copenhagen. The wheels, sprockets, and other key parts are still metal, as are the cables and chain. Rebecca is right, it'll fall apart in a couple of years.
ReplyDeleteSo, like Kae, I'll stick with all metal bikes.
Heck, I'll go one better: buy a used bike, one rebuilt by a competent bike mechanic. That's how I got my wheels.
One might say that I even "recycle".
;-p
You're welcome.
ReplyDeleteAnd what about the poor pandas?! Cannot anyone think of the pandas?!
PS Dems reckon they can pass Obamacare with only 51 votes now.
bingbing
ReplyDeleteWorse, what happens when you meet a hungry panda?
Cheers
Throw your bamboo bike at it.
ReplyDeletehahahahahaha!!!
ReplyDeleteI didn't have anything cutesy or amusing to say...you are all so fun tonight...but this is the TW: reekagna. WHY I think it's funny, I'm not sure, but it certainly has possibilities!
Ah, Reekagna. Still fond memories abound about that cute Polish farmer's daughter I had that fling with back in my days as a travelling salesman selling Coca-Cola in Eastern Europe after Gorby choked.
ReplyDeleteSorry to be tardy to the party.
ReplyDeleteBamboo bike - an object likely to excite much attention from the likes of those who exclaim that a dish full of dog excrement with a magnolia poking out the top is a "searing indictment of the inhumanity of capitalism and its impact on the endangered butterflies of patagonia".
The thought of having part of the frame shatter after two years of use whilst descending a hill at 40mph doesn't bear thinking about.
Then again, it could be a good way to thin the greentopia population.
With that in mind, when does marketing start on the People and Cargo Omnicycle?
Yo, BOAB!
ReplyDeleteMagnolia is the national flower of North Korea!
So just you... oh, wait a minute...ok.
http://www.north-korea-books.com/servlet/the-331/MAGNOLIA-SIEBOLDII--dsh--KOREA%27S/Detail
At 'under $1000' this will doubtless take the Third World by storm. riiiiight....
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