Ah, Ducatisti! Haha. I actually worked at a Ducati dealership in the mid nineties. They actually sent me to service school in Fairfield, NJ to learn to work on the 916. They're a little to fast and agile for me, not to mention a little uncompromizing for the touring I like to do. Fabulous bikes though. I work with a guy who has a basement full of them, and is building a 70's one frame up right now from an old 750ss that somebody brutalized into a chopper. He's making a nasty cafe out of it.

Do you race motard? I'll behave myself because apparently you're quite mad! I've never raced, but I'm mot putting it out of my head that I might get out there some day. I'd like to do one of the schools, like penguin I think it's called, and I king Keith Code has a school and there's that California one you always see in the back of the bike mags. That and a couple of track days.

Hey check out this odd dupe situation, the dramatic difference between the dates and votes...


http://www.videosift.com/video/Oh-hes-off-the-trackwaitwhat-is-he-doing

http://www.videosift.com/video/Valentino_Rossi_Toilet_Break





In reply to this comment by antonye:
In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Hey Antonye, thanks for all your great contributions to the *wheels channel. What are you riding these days. Street or just track?

Hi,
Thanks for the comment! I love adding some of the great racing I watch onto the Sift as it deserves a much wider audience
As for me, I'm riding both street and track still, but have not raced this year. I have 3 bikes: Ducati Hypermotard 1100S (wheelies), Ducati 748S (fast road), Ducati 600SS with 620ie engine (race). Can you spot the theme?
Antony

*80s
in the nineties they would have probably shot a rap video in the middle of the circle
in the 2000s fox news would nuke the entire car from orbit to stop it spreading it's liberal backwards agenda

don't cop cars have spike strips?
jumping around with a shotgun like that looks mighty hazardeous

The more pertinent question is, how much did the tests cost you in taxes or provincial premiums? I paid $5K ONE year. The previous and subsequent years I paid very little (in the low hundreds) because I didn't have big needs. You, on the other hand, pay 2 or 3 thousand (average) a year into the Canadian tax system whether you need it or not. Over the course of your lifetime you are spending many thousands more than I am.

I don't think you understand how taxes work in Canada and the provinces. The answer is zero. I pay my federal and provincial and municipal taxes. I went up into a higher tax bracket not too long ago, and that's the only time I've had to change what I pay. We may pay a little more, I think it's 3-4% more, and I'm okay with that, if I'm helping pay for an MRI to help someone know they don't have cancer.

No - we don't have to agree with that because it is a patently false statement. Our system is different than your, but it is FAR from 'inferior'. The US system creates far more innovation, has better doctors, and far more rapid treatment times. It has its problems, but it is not a clear-cut obvious answer that a single-payer public option would solve those problems. Socialized medical plans are different. Not better. You pay for those so-called 'free' systems with higher taxes, longer wait times, and 'denied coverage' where in our super-evil private system we have no health tax, extremely fast treatment, and everyone gets treated whether they can pay or not. It isn't as black & white an issue as neolibs try to pretend it is.

There actually isn't any "denied coverage" in Ontario. They don't turn you away if you have a problem, they will take care of it. Wait times, do happen, but make sure you looking at all the numbers. There's something called: "The 90th percentile" Yes, if you have a non life threatening condition, lets say a new hip or knee, then yes you will wait.. But, the doctors know how the system works, so they will schedule you for that surgery down the road, when you will need it. Ninety percent of the numbers Republicans are using are from that, they don't look at the stats for people with life threatening conditions. As for better, Canada is ranked higher than the US in healthcare. Infact, lets count the third world countries that are ranked higher than one of the greatest industrialized nations in the world; or lets look at how much of the GDP is spent into health care and look at the results, if you're America, you're not number one, you're far from it, which is a shame for such a great country.

shame we couldn't see the panel's response, if there was one.

transcript (from here)...

Start of transcript

Mr. Chairman, I’m surprised at the minister there now.

First of all Mr Minister (directed at Minister Noel Dempsey) you made a bags of it in the beginning by changing the judges. You made a complete bags of it at that time, because I went to the La Foy commission and ye had seven barristers there, questioning me and telling that I was telling lies, when I told them that I got raped of a Saturday, got a merciful beating after it, and then stuffed…

… he came along the following morning and put holy communion in my mouth.

You don’t know what happened there. You haven’t the foggiest, you’re talking through your hat there. And you’re talking to a Fianna Fáil man, a former councilor and former mayor you’re talking to, that worked tooth and nail or you, for the party that you’re talking about now. Ye didn’t do it right, ye got it wrong.

Admit it.

And apologize for doing that. Because you don’t know what I feel inside me. You don’t know the hurt I am.

You said it was non-adversarial.

My God.

Seven barristers.

Throwing questions at us.

Non-stop.

I tri.. attempted to commit suicide, there’s the woman who saved me from committing suicide, on me way down from Dublin, after spending five days at the commission. Five days I spent at the commission. They brought a man over from Rome, ninety odd years of age, to tell me I was telling lies.

That I wasn’t beaten for an hour, non-stop by two of them.

By two of them.

Non-stop from head to toe without a shred of cloth on my body.

My God minister.

And could I speak to you (comment directed to Leo Varadkar, Fianna Gael), and ask your leader, would you stop making a political football of this.

You hurt this when you do that.

You tear the shreds from inside our body.

For God’s sake, try and give us some peace.

Try to give us some peace and not to continue hurting us.

That woman will tell you how many times I jump out of the bed at night with the sweat pumping out of me. Because I see these fellas at the end of the bed with their fingers doing that (gestures) to me. And pulling me in to the room, to rape me, to bugger me and bate the shite out of me. That’s the way it is.

And you know what?

You know what, sometimes I listen to the leader of Fianna Fáil. I even listened to the apology. T’was mealy mouthed, but at least t’was an apology.

At least t’was an apology.

The Rosminians said in the report, they said they were easy on us. The first day I went to them. The first day to Rosminians in my home which is Ferryhouse in Clonmel, ’cause its the only home I know. He said “you’re in it for the money”.

We didn’t want money.

We didn’t want money. We wanted the pr… someone to stand up and say “yes, these fellas were buggered, these people were ra…”

Little girls. My daughter, oh sorry, my sister. A month old when she was put in to an institution. Eight of us from the one family, dragged by the ISPCC cruelty man. Put in to two cars, brought to the court in Clonmel. Left standing there without food or anything, and the fella in the long black frock and the white collar came along and he put us in to a van.

Not a van, a scut truck, I don’t know what you call it now. And landed us below with two hundred other boys. Two night later I was raped.

How can anyone…

You’re talking about constitution. These people would gladly say “yes” to a constitution to freeze the funds of the religous orders.

This state, this country of ours, would say “yes” to that constitition if you have to change it.

Don’t say you can’t change it.

You’re the governement of this state. You run this state. So for God’s sake stop mealy mouthing. ‘Cause I’m sick of it.

I’m sick of it.

You’re turning me away from voting Fianna Fáil which I have done from the first day that I could vote. Because. And you know me. You know me Mister Minister. You’ve met me on a number of ocassions. So you know what I’m like.

End of transcript

Interesting choice of music, not what I would have chosen.
Boy, would I liked to have been a fly on the wall, when he created this.

I'm just a human fly, and I don't know why
And I go buzz buzz buzz, and it's just because,
I got ninety six tears in my ninety six eyes.
--Cramps!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis

A lot of niggaz stepped up to the bad man
Chest bucked out with your head wide open
Hopin, to spot, a chip in this frame
I lived and died by the burnin flame
of the OK Corral, Cowboy style
From the Quarters on down to Colorado's
Big niggaz from uptown, ridin into Tahoe's
Saloon settin, kids is walkin round
drinkin whiskey and scotch, strictly out of shotglasses
Lookin screwfaced at the next nigga who passes
There's women in garter belts and ciggarettes
And on the side there's the price game
Niggaz is playin the price game
Indian Red, was bangin niggaz in the head
With his man Apache Joe, they take your money off the floor
They side-bettin for a better, they makin cheddar
That tribal shit is work ya sound the wompom drums
Cause my Indian man'sll break your great dick, UHH
Walk in the New York terrority
On the back of a tree, there's a picture of me
It says I'm lawless, flawless, a hustler plus gun rustler
Wanted in Carolina, for sellin some of New York's finer
Marshal Cooper say he want me, Marshal Cooper gotta get me
Marshal Cooper say beat me, Marshal Cooper better wet me
I gather alla y'all, all of my trusted men
All of my baddest niggaz, niggaz that's quickest with the triggers
There's distrubin news on the wire
That my dome piece is done sent to piece out for hire
I ain't goin down over no money exchange
You late for say I, who reigns as King of the Range?
In this land of wildness
Yo you better pack your vest
In the streets there's nothin but crime
So you best to watch your behind...
Meanwhile saloon settin is back to full swing
Bar's gettin money people doin they thing
There's strictly Boss Players with this kid named Minnesota
As women start to fill up, turn the notch on the grill up
And add mo' stakes to the house banks for gamblers
Half-pipes to scramblers, and free for Wild Cowboys
You never bring decoys if you wanna make real nouse
The bigger the stick, the bigger the fire
I never hit a man in the back, a coward acts like that
Lay out my black hat cause I feel like the bad man
Who on the rise, the D's to Manhattan
Let's walk the thirty paces on the Now Rule races
Oh it's the Marshal Cooper, and I love how he doin this
Women sayin don't get hurt, and I ain't plannin on it
Ten steps taken as I hit the blam factor
His dick to act up, was death the benefactor
Leave him twitchin in the dirt like Cousin Harold from the Menace
I'm in this to win this on the great wide trail
I'm ten times as bad as John Wayne, could ever be
Plus I'm down with the Indian, and need high to get the shit again
I'm responsible for that body in the alley
I'll Louisiana Purchase that ass with with Remi's spurs
and hard shots of Tequila, where the dancin girls
Let's get right as the story unfurls
Piano man keep playin, keep them keys bangin
Single man get three graves there's gonna be a hangin
Now this right here ain't for the youth to see
A grown man assed out swingin from a tree
In this land of wildness
Yo you better pack your vest
In the streets there's nothin but crime
So you best to watch your behind
Joe Tex was the biggest hombre from the projects
Had all the work locked down, so he thought
But he drank and got loose lipped, let a lot of news slip
Stripped of his game and got his self murdered
Thoughts of him are passin like the buffalo
Got his self rocked in the ninety-six brand new Acura
Niggaz said it was lightning BLAOW blew out the back mirror
Hah, youknowhatI'msayin? Dig, check it out
They say that Cowboys never die they just ride off into the sun
A little tale from Sadat X of how the WORLD was won
Check it out, remember this
Gun-slingers, dead-ringers with presidents
Is found tied with no explanation of how they died
Yo the great Sadat X, the High Plains Drifter
No question
In this land of wildness
Yo you better pack a vest
In the streets there's nothin but crime
So you best to watch your behind

It is unconscionable how long this has been going on. My husband had advanced officer training in the early nineties and one of his classmates was an incredibly talented officer who got a kicked out a few years later. I still think of her when I hear these stories. I am very disappointed in Obama for not acting on this. I am willing to forgive him putting off action on DOMA, but getting rid of DADT helps end injustice and makes our country safer.

To HollywoodBob, I think it's more complicated as to why people choose to serve in the military. As The LtCol here pointed out, for many it is a long-standing family tradition. The military is a completely different way of life and some people are made for it and cannot find true fulfillment elsewhere. It's a shame we are not allowing those people to do what is best for them and best for all of us.

Writing and editing copy for porn websites was part of a job I had in the nineties. Had a funny anecdote here but as with a few things lately, redacted for the sake of prudence.

THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G'S Verse



Uhhhhhh,

Uhhhhhh,

Niggas is mad I get more butt than ash trays,

Fuck a fair one I get mines the fast way,

The ski mask way,

Uhh,

Ransom notes,

Far from handsome...but damn a nigga tote,

[What ya' tote]

more guns than roses,

Foes is,

shaking in their boots,

Invisible bullies like The Gooch,

Disappear...vamoose...you're wack to me,

Take them rhymes back to the factory,

I see,

The gimmicks...the wack lyrics,

The shit is depressing...pathetic...please forget it,

You're mad cause my style you're admiring,

Don't be mad...UPS is hiring,

You shoulda been a cop...fuck hip-hop,

With that freestyle you're bound to get shot,

Not from Houston but I rap-a-lot,

Pack the gat a lot,

The flav's bout to drop uhh,


Here comes the brand new flava in ya ear,

Time for new flava in ya ear,

I'm...kicking...new....flava in ya ear,

Mack's a brand new flava in ya ear,

Here comes the brand new flava in ya ear



CRAIG MACK'S VERSE



AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH here comes the Mack!



Word up don't rap no crap you bore me,

Wanna grab my dick...too lazy...hold it for me,

I'm straight that great plus the heads straighten dreads,

I'm everlasting like the toe on Pro Keds,

A tech nine,

When I rhyme,

Plus I climb,

Word is bind,

You're album couldn't fuck with one line,

It's been three years since you last hear,

But now I reappear your heart pumps fear,

To your gut,

Did your girl's butt,

I scraped it...shaped it...now she won't strut,

I smash teeth,

Fuck your beef,

No relief,

I step on stage girls scream like I'm Keith,

You won't be around next year,

My rap's too severe,

Kicking mad flava in ya ear,



RAMPAGE'S VERSE



Twenty one...Ninety Four,

Mad muthafuckin' hardcore,

It's my turn to burn now explore,

The flava in ya ear it's the boyscout,

I make outs,

I make other rappers have doubts,

[That's right]

You're fucking with the wrong clan and the wrong man that's it,

Now you got to get your dome split,

I'm going into my knapsack with my gat,

Take off my hat,

Yes I'm just cool like that,

The dangerous,

The ruggedness,

>From the Flatbush abyss,

BLS...97...KISS bounce to this,

I wanna live long in this rap game,

Niggas know my name,

Yo Puffy...,

[Burn 'em in the flames]



[You're jingling baby]

{Go 'head daddy

[You're jingling baby]

{Go 'head daddy



LL COOL J'S VERSE

Heesheeee,

Uhhhhh...blowticious,

Skeevee [mmmmmm] delicious,

Gimme coos coos love me good,

Uhh damn,

Hollis to Hollywood but is he good?,

I guess like the jeans...Uhh,

Flava like praleens,

Sick daddy iaaamean?,

Papa love it when he does it,

Niggas buzz it,

But tell me was it really just the flava that be clogging your ears,

The most safest behavior is to stay in the clear,

It's all for you...It's really all for you,

{Now what?

Punch back,

Close your eyes try to munch that,

Oil up your ankles let your Tims tap,

Bite the flava it reacts to your gold caps,

Word to mama,

I tongue kiss a pirhana,

Electrocute a barracuda...I'm here to bring the drama,



BUSTER RHYMES' VERSE



YO!...YO! The flavas in your ass crease ha!,

Busta Rhymes' about to bring the noise don't cease ha!,

Let me loose from the belly of the beast ha!,

Everybody,

Hey...HEEEEEEYYYYYYY..Hey! you better believe it's Busta Rhymes and yo

we're

bout to rip the Tri-State,

Ay yo! Hey...HEEEEEEYYYYYYY..Hey!,

I'll split your face and give you stitches,

Throw niggas in ditches,

Smack the ass on fat bitches,

Wait one sec,

I'm coming down and rolling with the heavyweight connec to the stomping

grond,

Now...don't you get suspicious,

Grant your wishes everytime,

Breaking dishes when I bust a rhyme,

I know one thing the whole world least expected,

Was how we all connected to break fool on the same record,

Five new flavas on beat...feel the fuckin' heat,

I really think you should retreat while we blow up the street,

Instead of copping pleas just freeze,

Maintain the focus while we smoke these marijuana trees,

Break it down and disappear...reappear and blow up everywhere,

Fuckin' flava's in your ear,

alright first off then let me introduce my self
I'm the C to the o-L-D, one Eighty Seven
oooh I heard that the player with the Speech
cause it's me KM.G more flex then sex of the bitch
ooh yes, my brother takes two to the tangle
and since we got them when we get them, we better use the right angle
so I'm push, push in the back of the bush
cause it's a wonderful for feelin'
Yeah, cause we got the good for y'all suckers in ninety deuce
the whole part of gaffle, the whole gallon of zeuce
so I'ma ease up on them, real quick watch me hit them
brothers fall on the racial, what we hit them up for
cause when I'm on the bounce, I roll wit the set then comin' out
to take your car, your women, your whole damn house
so now I strapped with the quickness "yeah"
I flex my ends into my Benz and let God be the witness
oooh I'm finna teach you how the body slam, let me show you
but steppin' to my ball I got somethin' dope for you
so hold zone, to my willie
and don't be scared when we do the bug boogie
Yeah, it's like bam bam, bambam, that's the sound of my heater
when the ill stuff jumps
I keep it strickly confidential, bullet Proof is requested
got the fits in my hand and I've already blessed it
so toast to the record G
cause I'm C-O-L-D, the beat is kinda helpin' and I'm tipsy
cause every thing is on the one, it's a natural high
when I get to the hook of the joint, you know why...

To G or not to G, which is the answer, out of control
console your soul
Yeah they're schemin' on the big hit, and tryin' find a quick pick
lookin' for a real shit [tires screeching and car crash]
hold up, but that's counterfeit
on the real the funk don't appeal
You think you got clout, but you really down and out
so hold on tight, as we take you down the running way
how many, how many times I got to tell you that I don't play
ooh and if you don't know, I have to change my barrel
cause I roll on my ride around the way to Sack
oooh, yeah we did it like Venus
see it's been like 89 since the last time you've seen us
tell me, my peoples did you miss me on the real
who's never Paper tramps like hollyfield
Yeah, vision this, that sucker tried to sky me
when I'm harder then Kuwait or california earthquake
cause I got the munchies for your love so come and kick it
but you better come prepared cause it gets kinda wicked
Yeah, cause you can walk a blank if you schemin' for my bank
don't play me like a trick, yo my name ain't Marry
cause every thing is on the one, it's a natural high
when I get to the hook of the bullet, you know why...

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain
Let's go inside my astral plane
Find out my mental's based on instrumental
records hey, so I can write monumental
Methods, I'm not the King
But niggaz is decaf I stick em for the CREAM
check it, just how deep can shit get
Deep as the abyss and brothers is mad fish accept it
In your Cross Colour, clothes you've crossed over
Then got Totally Krossed Out and Kris Kross
Who da boss? Niggaz get tossed to the side
And I'm the dark side of the Force
Of course it's the Method, Man from the Wu-Tang Clan
I be hectic, and comin for the head piece protect it
Fuck it, two tears in a bucket, niggaz want the ruckus
Bustin at me bruh, now bust it
Styles, I gets buckwild
Method Man on some shit, pullin niggaz files
I'm sick, insane, crazy, Drivin Miss Daisy
Out her fuckin mind now I got mine I'm Swayze

Brothers want to hang with the Meth bring the rope
the only way you hang is by the neck nigga poke
off the set comin to your projects
Take it as a threat, better yet it's a promise
Comin from a vet on some old Vietnam shit
Nigga you can bet your bottom dollar hey I bomb shit
And it's gonna get even worse word to God
It's the Wu comin through sickin niggaz for they garments
Movin on your left, southpaw em it's the Meth
Came to represent and carve my name in your chest
You can come test realize you're no contest
Son I'm the gun that won that old Wild West
Quick on the draw with my hands on the four
nine three eleven with the rugged rhymes galore
Check it cause I think not when this hip-hops like proper
Rhymes be the proof while I'm drinkin 90 proof
Huh vodka, no OJ, no straw
When you give it to me aiy, give it to me raw
I've learned when you drink Absolut straight it burns
Enough to give my chest hairs a perm
I don't need a chemical blow to pull a hoe
All I need is Chemical Bank to pay da mo'
What, basically that, Meth-Tical, ninety-four style
Word up we be hazardous *car crashing* *horn passing me*
Northern spicy brown mustard hoes
We have to stick you

Awesome to see video from the early-mid nineties in goa. *promote

Not that the words make a whole lot of sense, but here ya go:

http://lyricwiki.org/R.E.M.:Swan_Swan_H

Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
What noisy cats are we
Girl and dog, he bore his cross

Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
A long, low time ago
People talk to me

Johnny Reb, what's the price of fans
Forty apiece or three for one dollar
Hey, captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks

Night wings, or hair chains?
Here's your wooden greenback, sing
Wooden beams and dovetail sweep
I struck that picture ninety times

I walked that path a hundred ninety
Long, low time ago
People talk to me

A pistol hot, cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine
Marching feet, Johnny Reb
What's the price of heroes?

Six and one, half dozen the other
Tell that to the captain's mother
Hey, captain, don't you want to buy
Some bone chains and toothpicks?

Night wings, or hair chains?
Swan, swan, hummingbird, hurrah
We are all free now
What noisy cats are we

Long, low time ago, people talk to me
A pistol hot cup of rhyme
The whiskey is water, the water is wine

In the early to mid-nineties I was an oyster farmer on a very isolated little island, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Every couple weeks or so I'd take my little motor boat to the nearest village, where I'd chill for a few days with a crew of birders and naturalists working for the Federal Gov't. After a few beers, etc. out on the deck of the government house in the village, one cat would break out the high-end government audio and play recordings of different bird calls, bringing various anomalous birds into view by f**king with their adorable little minds. (This guy is the Elvis of the BC birder community.)

Anyway, I saw him coax an Anna's hummingbird to fly into his mouth.

I still dont know how to feel about all the HIV/AIDS humor of which am seeing more and more these days. On the one hand, it works to deflate the cultural stigma and fear of the disease, which may be a good thing. The opposite could also be said. I mean, AIDS humor is certainly no better or worse than all those AIDS-centered dramas from the nineties, because in many ways they dramatized it, which in its own way works to deflate its reality. The point is, since AIDS is still such a global horror, to me its still very much a question whether we can take videos like this lightly. Because, at first glance, its fairly superficial, isn't it?