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http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/editorspick_mobile/x2042556278/Legislation-could-ease-states-motorcycle-helmet-laws
Legislation could ease state's motorcycle helmet laws.
By Krista Kano/Daily News Correspondent
MetroWest Daily News Posted
Last update Nov 30, 2011 @ 12:42 AM
Gutting a state law requiring helmets for motorcyclists will increase the number of deaths and serious head injuries, law enforcement officials and safety advocates say.
The proposed measure will be the subject of a legislative hearing on Beacon Hill today.The bill, filed by Sen. Stephen Brewer, D-Barre, and set to be discussed by the Joint Committee on Transportation, would require only those under 21 to wear a helmet. All motorcyclists and passengers now must wear helmets.
"Being over 21 or under 21 doesn't matter if you're involved in a crash," Framingham Police Chief Steven Carl said. "Age has nothing to do with the injuries you'll sustain. It's proven how much helmets will reduce injuries and save lives."
MetroWest is home to 8,000 registered motorcyclists.
Massachusetts is one of 20 states requiring that all motorcyclists wear helmets. Three states - Illinois, Iowa and New Hampshire - have no helmet laws. If Brewer's proposal passes, Massachusetts would join 27 other states that have helmet laws that extend only to young riders, most under age 18.
Motorcyclists are 37 times more likely than car drivers to die in a crash and nine times more likely to be injured, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission. Riders who don't wear helmets are three times more likely to receive traumatic brain injuries than those who wear helmets, the commission says.
"Getting a brain injury is with you forever," said B.J. Williams, spokesman for the Massachusetts Brain Injury Association. "The least we can do is to keep people safer on a motorcycle, whether they're operating or just a passenger, especially for drivers who don't have good experience."
Williams said treatment for a brain injury may last anywhere from a couple of months to a lifetime, and those services could cost as much as $9 million.
"I'm surprised legislators are even actually discussing it," Carl said.
In 1967, the federal government began requiring states to enact motorcycle helmet laws before they could receive funding for certain federal safety programs and highway construction funds. By 1975, all but three states had mandatory helmet laws for all riders. From 1976 to 1978, though, after the federal requirement was dropped, 20 states weakened their laws to require helmets only for those under 18, and eight states repealed the laws completely.
Since then, helmet laws have waxed and waned, with the number of motorcycle deaths increasing with the elimination of helmet laws in various states.
"I personally am not in favor" of any move to drop the helmet requirement, Westborough Police Chief Alan Gordon said. "We've had a number of motorcycle crashes, and I've seen helmets with big cracks across them and people have walked away without injuries. If they hadn't been wearing a helmet and their head had hit the pavement, that crack would have been in their skull."
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Rusty Coones stars in Doritos Commercial Submitted for the Super Bowl
Attika7 | Los Angeles, CA
Stop what your doing!!!!
Put down your food/drinks!!!!
Turn off the TV/Radio!!!!
You're going to want to give your full attention on this video submitted for the Doritos Chips challenge to be seen Super Bowl Sunday featuring Attika7's very own, Shredding Rusty Coones.
Some hilarios funny shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Video will not play on cell phones or I pad's so must watch on desktop.
Visit this link to see the video;
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/?video=16107
When the flash screen pops up in the TOP Right hand corner click the "Skip" link and video will play automatically.
Rusty Proudly Endorses ESP Guitars!
Stop what your doing!!!!
Put down your food/drinks!!!!
Turn off the TV/Radio!!!!
You're going to want to give your full attention on this video submitted for the Doritos Chips challenge to be seen Super Bowl Sunday featuring Attika7's very own, Shredding Rusty Coones.
Some hilarios funny shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Video will not play on cell phones or I pad's so must watch on desktop.
Visit this link to see the video;
http://www.crashthesuperbowl.com/#/gallery/?video=16107
When the flash screen pops up in the TOP Right hand corner click the "Skip" link and video will play automatically.
Rusty Proudly Endorses ESP Guitars!
ICELAND - Guns and Knives Confiscated by Reykjavík Police
OFF THE WIRE
icelandreview.com
The Reykjavík Metropolitan Police confiscated a considerable amount of weapons during a raid last week, conducted in connection with their investigation of a recent case of shooting in the capital. The weapons were displayed to the media yesterday.
At yesterday’s press conference it was announced that a man, born in 1980, was arrested on Monday in relation with the confiscation of the weapons. He will remain in custody until December 8. He has a long history with the police.
The man is a member of the motorcycle club Outlaws; there are various indications that the club is connected with the shooting. Two suspects are now in custody because of this case and a third suspect has begun serving an older sentence.
Outlaws are connected with the club Black Pistons, which has now become a formal member of Outlaws. Two Black Pistons members were recently sentenced to prison for assault and deprivation of liberty.
Click here to read more about the shooting and related stories and here to read more about the presence of Hells Angels in Iceland.
icelandreview.com
The Reykjavík Metropolitan Police confiscated a considerable amount of weapons during a raid last week, conducted in connection with their investigation of a recent case of shooting in the capital. The weapons were displayed to the media yesterday.
Archive photo by Páll Stefánsson.
The police have conducted a number of raids in connection with the investigation, one of which resulted in the confiscation of four guns, including a sawed-off shotgun, approximately 50 knives, iron knuckles and ammunition, Morgunblaðið reports. At yesterday’s press conference it was announced that a man, born in 1980, was arrested on Monday in relation with the confiscation of the weapons. He will remain in custody until December 8. He has a long history with the police.
The man is a member of the motorcycle club Outlaws; there are various indications that the club is connected with the shooting. Two suspects are now in custody because of this case and a third suspect has begun serving an older sentence.
Outlaws are connected with the club Black Pistons, which has now become a formal member of Outlaws. Two Black Pistons members were recently sentenced to prison for assault and deprivation of liberty.
Click here to read more about the shooting and related stories and here to read more about the presence of Hells Angels in Iceland.
AUSTRALIA - In Black and White: What the L's going on here?
OFF THE WIRE
Steve Perkin
heraldsun.com.au
FENELLA saw this official Yarra Trams poster in the number eight tram yesterday. Note the spelling of Caulfield down the bottom.
++++++
POLICE turned up in Brunswick yesterday with their information van, seeking help from locals on yesterday's shooting near Barkly Square.
Whether they knew it or not, they set up right outside the headquarters of the Bandidos motorcycle gang. The shooting victim, Toby Mitchell, is a Bandidos member.
So close was the police information van that it's canopy was almost touching the clubroom wall.
Fortunately, somebody realised that, if you wanted people to step into the van and volunteer information, asking them to do it right outside the headquarters of a bikie gang, perhaps in the early stages of a bikie war, wasn't the best idea.
The van was quickly relocated around the block near the supermarket.
And while we're talking about the shooting, well done to the lateral thinker at the ABC who accompanied the shooting story with Vera Lynn singing aifA Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square aif.
++++++
JOHN, our clever business names reporter, is still up north and sent back these two offerings.
He found a clothing alterations business in Trinity Park called Sew Reliable, and a coffee shop in Manora called Cup And Away.
And John's understudy, Maria, likes the child minding centre in Kealba called Cradles To Crayons.
Steve Perkin
heraldsun.com.au
FENELLA saw this official Yarra Trams poster in the number eight tram yesterday. Note the spelling of Caulfield down the bottom.
++++++
POLICE turned up in Brunswick yesterday with their information van, seeking help from locals on yesterday's shooting near Barkly Square.
Whether they knew it or not, they set up right outside the headquarters of the Bandidos motorcycle gang. The shooting victim, Toby Mitchell, is a Bandidos member.
So close was the police information van that it's canopy was almost touching the clubroom wall.
Fortunately, somebody realised that, if you wanted people to step into the van and volunteer information, asking them to do it right outside the headquarters of a bikie gang, perhaps in the early stages of a bikie war, wasn't the best idea.
The van was quickly relocated around the block near the supermarket.
And while we're talking about the shooting, well done to the lateral thinker at the ABC who accompanied the shooting story with Vera Lynn singing aifA Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square aif.
++++++
JOHN, our clever business names reporter, is still up north and sent back these two offerings.
He found a clothing alterations business in Trinity Park called Sew Reliable, and a coffee shop in Manora called Cup And Away.
And John's understudy, Maria, likes the child minding centre in Kealba called Cradles To Crayons.
Are you ready for this??? , no actually from the gov't!!
OFF THE WIRE
I Paid....Didn't You? Social Security.......Justice
KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS READ IT.....
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS CALCULATION IS
THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED
BEFORE THEY COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!
WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security, but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.
If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours and your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98.
If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65)
and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!
If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year,
you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.
The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.
Entitlement my butt, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!
Just because they borrowed the money,
doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!
Congressional benefits ---- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement entitlements?
We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, and Homeless.
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey.
And now Pakistan ......home of Bin Laden.
Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid, nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now when it's time for us to collect,
the government is running out of money.
Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.
Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.
All my friends !
Read This Crap.
Don't you wonder what's next???
ON JANUARY 1, 2012, THE US GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRING EVERYONE TO HAVE DIRECT
DEPOSIT FOR SS CHECKS.
WONDER WHY?
Subject: HR 4646
Be sure to read entire explanation
Watch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE, in case you think Obama is looking out for your best interest.
A 1% tax on all bank transactions is what HR 4646 calls for.
Do you receive a retirement check from Social Security or a pension fund and have it direct deposit??
Well guess what ... It looks as if Obama wants to tax it 1% !!!
This bill was put forth by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA).
YES, that is 1% tax on all bank transactions - HR 4646, every time it goes in and every time money goes out.
Ask your congressperson to vote NO.
FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
1% tax on all bank transactions ~ HR 4646 - ANOTHER NEW OBAMA TAX SLIPPED IN
WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on snopes, it's true! Check it out yourself ~ HR 4646.
1. snopes.com: Debt Free America Act •••
Is the U.S. government proposing a 1% tax on debit card usage and/or banking transactions?
...It is true. The bill is HR-4646 introduced by US Rep Peter deFazio D-Oregon and US Senator Tom Harkin D-Iowa. Their plan is to sneak it in after the...
...moved beyond proposing studies and submitted the Debt Free America Act (H.R. 4646), a bill calling for the implementation of a scheme to pay down the...
...[2010] by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.). His "Debt Free America Act" (H.R. 4646) would impose a 1 percent "transaction tax" on every financial transaction...
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:28:33 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp
President Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee (TAX). Obama's plan is to sneak it in after the November elections to keep it under the radar.
This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution - banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer within your own bank from one account to another, will have a
1% tax charged.
If your paycheck or your Social Security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction.
If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand carry your paycheck or any check in to your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be charged.
You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50 just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank.
If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged.
Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax.
Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn about this guy's under-the-table
moves to increase the number of ways you are taxed.
Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank.
Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank.
Some will say, oh well, it's just 1%. Are you kidding me? It's a 1% tax increase across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at will. And if anyone protests, they will just say, "Oh,that's not really a tax, it's a user fee"!
Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made from last year's banking statements. Then add the total of all those transactions and deduct 1%. Still think it's no big deal?
I Paid....Didn't You? Social Security.......Justice
KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERY ONE HAS READ IT.....
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THIS CALCULATION IS
THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED
BEFORE THEY COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY!
WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?
Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security, but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500.
If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours and your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98.
If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65)
and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!
If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year,
you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.
The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.
Entitlement my butt, I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!!
Just because they borrowed the money,
doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!
Congressional benefits ---- free healthcare, outrageous retirement packages, 67 paid holidays, three weeks paid vacation, unlimited paid sick days, now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement entitlements?
We're "broke" and can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, and Homeless.
In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti, Chile, and Turkey.
And now Pakistan ......home of Bin Laden.
Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!
Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid, nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!
They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now when it's time for us to collect,
the government is running out of money.
Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?
Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.
Sad isn't it?
99% of people won't have the guts to forward this.
I'm one of the 1% -- I Just Did.
All my friends !
Read This Crap.
Don't you wonder what's next???
ON JANUARY 1, 2012, THE US GOVERNMENT IS REQUIRING EVERYONE TO HAVE DIRECT
DEPOSIT FOR SS CHECKS.
WONDER WHY?
Subject: HR 4646
Be sure to read entire explanation
Watch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE, in case you think Obama is looking out for your best interest.
A 1% tax on all bank transactions is what HR 4646 calls for.
Do you receive a retirement check from Social Security or a pension fund and have it direct deposit??
Well guess what ... It looks as if Obama wants to tax it 1% !!!
This bill was put forth by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA).
YES, that is 1% tax on all bank transactions - HR 4646, every time it goes in and every time money goes out.
Ask your congressperson to vote NO.
FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
1% tax on all bank transactions ~ HR 4646 - ANOTHER NEW OBAMA TAX SLIPPED IN
WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on snopes, it's true! Check it out yourself ~ HR 4646.
1. snopes.com: Debt Free America Act •••
Is the U.S. government proposing a 1% tax on debit card usage and/or banking transactions?
...It is true. The bill is HR-4646 introduced by US Rep Peter deFazio D-Oregon and US Senator Tom Harkin D-Iowa. Their plan is to sneak it in after the...
...moved beyond proposing studies and submitted the Debt Free America Act (H.R. 4646), a bill calling for the implementation of a scheme to pay down the...
...[2010] by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.). His "Debt Free America Act" (H.R. 4646) would impose a 1 percent "transaction tax" on every financial transaction...
Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:28:33 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp
President Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%) transaction fee (TAX). Obama's plan is to sneak it in after the November elections to keep it under the radar.
This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution - banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a transfer within your own bank from one account to another, will have a
1% tax charged.
If your paycheck or your Social Security or whatever is direct deposit, it will get a 1% tax charged for the transaction.
If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand carry your paycheck or any check in to your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be charged.
You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50 just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank.
If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged.
Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under $250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax.
Keep your eyes and ears open, you will be amazed at what you learn about this guy's under-the-table
moves to increase the number of ways you are taxed.
Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank.
Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from, you will pay a 1% fee if you put it in the bank.
Some will say, oh well, it's just 1%. Are you kidding me? It's a 1% tax increase across the board. Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at will. And if anyone protests, they will just say, "Oh,that's not really a tax, it's a user fee"!
Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made from last year's banking statements. Then add the total of all those transactions and deduct 1%. Still think it's no big deal?
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