Perhaps you misunderstand me. I don't accuse her of taking anything from professionals, as I don't think they're competing. I only think, when making a claim of record bicycle speeds, if those speeds are not achieved without assistance it should be clearly noted. They didn't hide it, but the title slightly mislead me and left me disappointed it wasn't a human powered speed, because that speed would have more than doubled the previous record and that would be amazing.

This is a feat of skill and bravery. It simply is not a feat of purely human powered speed. Nothing wrong with that, as long as it's clear, imo.


Nice trip. 2500 miles is a good chunk of the distance coast to coast (depending on the route). Where did you ride to/from?
I've never done a long distance ride like that, I just rode to school and back daily...over 35 miles round trip...and around town. Up here in Humboldt, the roads are terrible so I don't ride much anymore, skinny racing tires don't do well in potholes. I'm getting too old and broken for serious mountain bike trail riding, which is sad considering the trails I have available.

I'm intrigued by the sand swap idea, but also concerned about the introduction of invasive species that may be living in that sand. Just a thought if you make the trip.

Perhaps you are ignorant of the fact that the vast majority cross where walls already exist. To answer your question, nearly all of them would still try. Do you really think a fence is deterrence when the alternative is go home and see your family raped to death before you're decapitated? Would you just say "oops, sorry, didn't mean to trigger you....let me just take my daughter back to the narcos for a life of sex slavery and just die then, so sorry."?

A better immigration policy that makes it easier to get a work visa or asylum at ports of entry instead of making illegal entry easier, simpler, cheaper, and faster would discourage people from taking the easier, but illegal path. We are moving the other direction, which is why illegal immigration is on the rise under Trump after falling steadily for decades.

This doesn't cost America except for fighting it, they make us money with cheap labor, taxation without representation or access to government assistance, and by lowering the per capita crime rates by being far less criminal on average than Americans. You want to deport a group that's well above average in criminality, that would be Republican politicians and or Trump associates...no one will miss a single one.

A $50 billion wall (Trump's never built anything that wasn't at least 100% over budget) that can be evaded with a ladder, shovel, car, truck, saw, torch, boat, plane, and in many many places, absolutely nothing (it's no longer a single solid wall from coast to gulf, it's now a fence in a few more places for your $50 billion.) is not just vastly more expensive, it's also uselessly wasting that money for almost zero return, the few places it might help will just see the migrant paths move a few miles over.

If we had a 40+ ft high, 20 ft deep, 4+ft thick reinforced concrete wall coast to coast that was somehow ladder proof, it still wouldn't stop most illegal immigration or drug trafficking, because the vast majority of both come through ports of entry. The wall is a useless solution to a non existent problem that's been solving itself for decades....side note: what do you think it was like in the good old days when America was "great"? Contrary to Chump's claims, operation wetback (that he wants to reimplement) was a failure....
https://www.cato.org/blog/enforcement-didnt-end-unlawful-immigration-1950s-more-visas-did

3 of the countries that I pay for cable tv service all carry fox news. MSNBC is no where to be found on the channel listing except for in america. Hell even in america in a number of hotels that I've stayed in through out the midwest you can't find MSNBC.

Conservative talk radio dominates the AM radio networks from coast to coast. The right wing propaganda machine is finely tuned and a force that the left hasn't scratched the surface on trying to counter.

I don't know what it all means, but fox is doing a great job of dragging this country around by the nose.

Look
If you had
One shot
Or one opportunity
To release all the energy you ever wanted
In one moment
Would you abuse it
Or use it for good?

They've armed the weapon
Countdown clock is set and
J. Robert Oppenheimer is sweatin'
Eyes are red and he's nervous
Cause on the surface this is armageddon
The shock bomb, but we're set upon and threatened
And with no sound the whole Alamogordo ground
Is glowing and cowed under one smouldering cloud
He's choked and wowed, everybody's open-mouthed
And over the ground the shock front blows, kapow!
Snap back to the alchemy
Hope before tragedy
Showed with bold math that we broke the whole atom
We choked; controlled action with poles of cold cadmium coat
To go capture neutrons and slow fracture
We broke, postponed that and we chose to go fashion
A most radioactive plutonium gadget then
Fat Man and Boy and Enola goes laughin'
As Nagasaki is blown and Hiroshima's blasted

You gotta choose, yourself how to use it
The knowledge you hold and
Don't ever let a letter go
You only get one shot to stop
And one chance to know
Responsibility comes once you're a science guy, yo!

Neutrons escaping from a source radiating
Merge and start atoms shaking; they begin
To unglue toward a decreased order
Entropic force distorts em
And supercharged with loads of protons they can only go farther
Cold war grows hotter--exothermal--Colorado to Joe Stalin
Coast to coast holes; silos but there's no farmer
Toe-to-toe drama
NATO and Warszawa in co-assured trauma
The globe groans everyone knows there's no calming
So show your foes and implode your core column
Quid pro quo Castle Bravo for Tsar Bomba
And move on and leave atolls exposed to gross doses of old fallout;
Slow-to-go toxins in shoals and so though we explode them no longer
Still the proof lives on in the blue lagoon water, father

You gotta choose, yourself how to use it
The knowledge you hold and
Don't ever let a letter go
You only get one shot to stop
And one chance to know
Responsibility comes once you're a science guy, yo!

When war games hit the stage of a gluon's rage
There's a military boot on the new doc's page
We were playing in the beginning, but grew up strange
Making radar and missiles, and new bombs blazed
And we kept grinding the lensed sights for the next sniper
Best believe son it'll pay to design fighters
All the gains of science analyzed by the
Man provide plans for sarin and cyanide
And our hands are blighted by crying
Eyes when dying lands are slammed if our grants expand the fire brighter
And there's no jury there's no sublime righter
This is our fight
And these minds are all ours so protect your pia mater
Try to feed and water good, seed trust, flee dishonour
Gotta be clean being Apollo stead of Vietnam and
Lay the armour down and be the one to stand up
And lead us on the trail of Spock
We'll elevate these motley progeny
To a future in a safer spot, an irrigated plot
Homicide a way forgot
Success is a lack of military options
Failure's not
Become a lover of a great and cosmic goal
We cannot condone these terror plots
So here we go it's our shot
Feel frail or not
This is the only world and humanity that we got

You gotta choose, yourself how to use it
The knowledge you hold and
Don't ever let a letter go
You only get one shot to stop
And one chance to know
Responsibility comes once you're a science guy, yo!

You gotta make your own mind up, man.

If I was someone who had money to burn I'd seriously consider having people driving around with wads of cash and troll for these chuckleheads. Then when they try to run off with the cash I would take these criminal asshats to court and publicize it from coast to coast, this shit just keeps getting deeper and deeper.
On the other hand it does kind of mystify me why some people feel the need to drive around with so much cash on them, the one guy with the restaurant had some kind of excuse but if you score big in Vegas why wouldn't you just deposit your winnings?

You have been awarded 1 Power Point for fixing the embed code for Dead Pool video Gordon Freeman calls Coast to Coast. Thank you for helping maintain VideoSift's reliability.

"All around the city and from coast to coast.."

True, @Lann. There is an abundant supply of rednecks in the state of California. Probably a disproportionate concentration of them in Southern CA in comparison to most places. We've got more of EVERYTHING here.

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>> ^blankfist:

Oh, you didn't have to change the title. I posted this video on facebook and called it "Country Boy Solution", but that's because I have lots of friends in the south and "redneck" is OUR WORD! You can't use it!
It's an important enough video for a quality either way.


Rednecks are not exclusively in the south...they reign from coast to coast.

>> ^blankfist:

Oh, you didn't have to change the title. I posted this video on facebook and called it "Country Boy Solution", but that's because I have lots of friends in the south and "redneck" is OUR WORD! You can't use it!
It's an important enough video for a quality either way.


Rednecks are not exclusively in the south...they reign from coast to coast.

http://lyricwiki.org/The_Hidden_Cameras:Boys_Of_Melody

Far out at sea
bathed in breeze
Now only ghosts
we haunt living dreams

Out on the coast
the coast is the most
that we'll ever see

Out on the coast
we'll sit and boast
that "it's all we need"

Wade through the sand
and find the romance
that we know we need

Boys of Melody
And they'll follow me
And I'll sing harmony

And with our song
marching along
few feign a frown
or forget their towns

We proceed in stained bed sheets
and hang on our sleeves
that "we're happy"

Sung with a chorus of tones
backed by drums and drones
We march towards the sea

As we reach the edge
I sing a new lament
"the boys are here with me"

Boys of melody
And they'll follow me
And I'll sing harmony

And "it's all we need"
"The boys are here with me"
"We're happy"

a friend and i decided that when we are old and he is a pirate with a stripper tattoo on his chest and i am a stripper with a pirate tattoo on my chest, this will be our themesong. we will be rocking out in a topless powder blue 70s jeep blowing up dams and billboards from coast to coast, haywood style you know... maybe we should hire this girl to follow us around with a keyboard.

Stanton T. Friedman, UFOlogist, Physicist and Author will come to The Brogan Museum (350 S. Duval St., Tallahassee, FL) to lecture on the Roswell Incident!

Come for illustrated lectures:
“The Real Roswell Story”
November 7, at 7 p.m. and

“Star Travel? Yes!”
November 8 at 11 a.m.
Tickets are $10 each and are on sale at The Brogan Museum or by calling: 850-513-0700 x 0.

Friedman received his BS and MS degrees in physics from the University of Chicago in 1955 and 1956. For 14 years he worked on the development of a wide variety of classified, advanced nuclear and space systems for such companies as GE, GM, Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas, TRW Systems and Aerojet General Nucleonics.
Stanton Friedman became interested in Flying Saucers in 1958, gave his first lecture in 1967, and in the mid-1970s began the civilian investigation of the recovery of crashed flying saucers near Roswell, New Mexico.
Friedman has spoken at more than 600 colleges and over 100 professional groups in all 50 states, 9 Canadian provinces, and 16 other countries. He has appeared on hundreds of TV and radio programs including Larry King (4 times), Nightline, Peter Jennings, ET, Canada AM, Coast to Coast radio with Art Bell , George Noory, and George Knapp and in dozens of Documentaries on the History, Discovery,and Sci-Fi channels. He has published more than 90 UFO articles, Co-authored “Crash at Corona: The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident” as well as “Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience” (with Kathleen Marden, Betty’s niece), “TOP SECRET/MAJIC” about Operation Majestic 12, and in June the new 2008 “Flying Saucers and Science”.

^god you're clueless sometimes...

when will you realize that liberals hate the unbalanced neo-con funded media and conservatives hate the "liberal media"...but it's the same media. The difference between the two is about as real as the east coast/west coast rap wars. It's just for show and you're being sucked in like an overweight trailer inhabitant to "Days of Our Lives".

I blame it entirely on hanging out with funny people. And doing intensive comical repetition drills for three hours a day three days a week.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
I see you've studied comical repetition and timing.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Thanks. I do try sometimes.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
...this is the only part of this post that made me laugh.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
This one brought a big laugh!

I see you've studied comical repetition and timing.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Thanks. I do try sometimes.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
...this is the only part of this post that made me laugh.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
This one brought a big laugh!