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weasle
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Posted: Sat Mar 25th, 2006 02:00 pm |
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| STILL THINK THEY OUGHT TO SEND THEM ALL BACK , AND LET THEM BECOME AMERICAN CITIZENS LEGALLY . WHAT RIGHT DO THEY HAVE IN THE US TO PROTEST IF THEY ARE CITIZENS OF MEXICO (ECT) ??? think what it boils down to is , money , these , corp , builders , farmers , can hire them for nothing , and take jobs away from americans . thats who,s probably behind this protest movement . .02.
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marc
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Posted: Sat Mar 25th, 2006 01:22 am |
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Immigration Rallies Draw Thousands Nationwide
By TIM MOLLOY, Associated Press Writer
Thousands of people across the country protested Friday against legislation cracking down on illegal immigrants, with demonstrators in such cities as Los Angeles, Phoenix and Atlanta staging school walkouts, marches and work stoppages. Treason
Congress is considering bills that would make it a felony to be illegally in the United States, impose new penalties on employers who hire illegal immigrants and erect fences along one-third of the U.S.-Mexican border. The proposals have angered many Hispanics. TFB
The Los Angeles demonstration led to fights between black and Hispanic students at one high school, but the protests were largely peaceful, authorities said.
Chantal Mason, a sophomore at George Washington Preparatory High, said black students jumped Hispanic students as they left classes to protest a bill passed the House in December that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally.
"It was horrible, horrible," Mason said. "It's ridiculous that a bunch of black students would jump on Latinos like that, knowing they're trying to get their freedom."
In Phoenix, police said 10,000 demonstrators marched to the office of Republican Sen. Jon Kyl (news, bio, voting record), co-sponsor of a bill that would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country. The turnout clogged a major thoroughfare. Get em the hell out now!!!
"They're here for the American Dream," said Malissa Greer, 29, who joined a crowd estimated by police to be at least 10,000 strong. "God created all of us. He's not a God of the United States, he's a God of the world."
Kyl had no immediate comment on the rally.
At least 500 students at Huntington Park High School near Los Angeles walked out of classes in the morning. Hundreds of the students, some carrying Mexican flags, walked down the middle of Los Angeles streets, police cruisers behind them.
The students visited two other area high schools, trying to encourage students to join their protest, but the schools were locked down to keep students from leaving, said Los Angeles district spokeswoman Monica Carazo.
In Georgia, activists said tens of thousands of workers did not show up at their jobs Friday after calls for a work stoppage to protest a bill passed by the Georgia House on Thursday.
That bill, which has yet to gain Senate approval, would deny state services to adults living in the U.S. illegally and impose a 5 percent surcharge on wire transfers from illegal immigrants. Thats a good start.
Supporters say the Georgia measure is vital to homeland security and frees up limited state services for people legally entitled to them. Opponents say it unfairly targets workers meeting the demands of some of the state's largest industries.
Teodoro Maus, an organizer of the Georgia protest, estimated as many as 80,000 Hispanics did not show up for work. About 200 converged on the steps of the Georgia Capitol, some wrapped in Mexican flags and holding signs reading: "Don't panic, we're Hispanic" and "We have a dream, too." So do we.
Jennifer Garcia worried what would the proposal would do to her family. She said her husband is an illegal Mexican immigrant. Ask me if I care.
"If they send him back to Mexico, who's going to take care of them and me?" Garcia said of herself and her four children. "This is the United States. We need to come together and be a whole." Go back with him.
On Thursday, thousands of people filled the streets of Milwaukee for what was billed as "A Day Without Latinos" to protest efforts in Congress to target undocumented workers. Police estimated more than 10,000 people joined the demonstrations and march to downtown Milwaukee. Organizers put the number at 30,000.
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weasle
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 08:43 pm |
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| begining to think anybody would be an improvement over what we got . got a thing today , asking to donate money so guys in va. hospitals can have stuff for hobbies , model building ( ect) these are the wounded from this war . WTF is the VA.for ??? idont want to get started , so ill just say the gov we have now , IMHO ,is incopentent , from top to bottom . ill leave it at that.
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zippo
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 07:53 pm |
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weasle wrote: wont have to worry about getting any social programs as long as we got bush , gotta spend the money on his war !! .02.
Just wait for Hillary and company!
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weasle
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 06:55 pm |
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| wont have to worry about getting any social programs as long as we got bush , gotta spend the money on his war !! .02.
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zippo
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 05:31 pm |
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I think we have to be VERY careful in socializing our economy.
Protest Turns Violent in Heart of Paris
Gang Rampage Mars Rally Against Job Law; Pressure Builds on Chirac
By Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, March 24, 2006; A01
PARIS, March 23 -- It was just the scene the French government had been dreading: burning cars seven blocks from the Eiffel Tower, shop windows smashed along one of the capital's toniest streets, and columns of helmeted riot police advancing across the greensward of a prominent tourist venue.
Antoil Ethuin, 48, stood outside the shattered windows of his Bike n' Roll rental shop Thursday, stunned by the destruction of the worst violence in two weeks of student protests in Paris and other French cities.
"My country is broken," said Ethuin, gazing at the smoldering automobile carcasses a few yards away and the carpet of glass shards, broken dishes and computer pieces covering the sidewalk in the heart of one of the city's most affluent neighborhoods. "I never imagined I would ever see this in Paris."
Thursday's violence came at the end of a demonstration by tens of thousands of high school and college students protesting a new job law. The unrest intensified a political crisis that now threatens to unravel President Jacques Chirac's government -- much the way previous French governments have been felled by strikes and street protests when they attempted even modest reforms of the country's costly welfare state.
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin -- author of the contentious law that would make it easier for companies to both hire and fire young workers -- has scheduled an emergency meeting with the country's most influential labor unions Friday in an effort to defuse the crisis.
The demonstrations have underscored the widening divide between the French government and its people at a time when France is losing both economic and political clout on the global stage. Street protests and general strikes, often occurring in the spring, have long been an accepted political ritual in France, and they now have become a symbol of the country's inability to reform a stagnant economy hobbled by inflexible labor laws, high taxes and a corpulent welfare system.
It is a crisis also facing other countries across Europe as governments of the left and the right have similarly attempted to alter their costly systems of generous health, unemployment and welfare benefits; most, like that of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, have failed in the face of widespread resistance to change.
On Thursday afternoon, as a crowd of as many as 140,000 young people and others prepared to end their march in the large park fronting the gold-domed Hotel des Invalides housing Napoleon's tomb, gangs of hooded and masked youths darted out of side streets, setting cars ablaze, flipping others upside down, breaking store windows and throwing rocks and stones at police and firefighters, according to witnesses.
Riot police broke up the groups of rampaging youths with tear gas as acrid, black smoke filled narrow streets and billowed above the city skyline.
Police said 60 people were injured in the clashes, including 27 police officers, and 141 people were arrested.
The shellshocked owner of the Shanghai Restaurant overlooking the Esplanade des Invalides stood outside the jagged glass of his doorway, dejected and slump-shouldered. Broken dishes and pots of white and purple flowers littered the street. Inside, splintered chairs and table settings covered the restaurant floor.
Nearly a dozen stores, restaurants and apartment buildings were attacked and damaged. Firefighters struggled to extinguish the flames of three burned-out cars. Four other vehicles had been overturned or severely battered.
In the park across the street, hundreds of riot police clad in black uniforms and carrying shields advanced toward groups of suspected troublemakers against the backdrop of the Hotel des Invalides, the low-slung Foreign Ministry building and the golden statues standing sentry at the Invalides Bridge traversing the Seine River.
The attacks at the corner of Rue Saint Dominique and Rue Fabert, just a short walk from the Eiffel Tower in Paris's affluent and touristy 7th arrondissement, followed a pattern that has emerged in the last few days of marches.
While the demonstrations have been orderly and peaceful, groups of 200 to 300 youths who police say do not appear to be participating in the organized marches have appeared suddenly during concluding rallies, taunting police and creating havoc.
Police have speculated that the gangs may be from the poor suburban areas that erupted in riots last fall. In those disturbances, youths across France -- many of them immigrants or French-born children of immigrants -- burned thousands of cars and hundreds of public buildings and private businesses to protest government indifference to the joblessness and lack of social services in their communities. Little of that violence spilled over into Paris or other urban centers.
Both the suburban riots and the ongoing student demonstrations have been devastating to Chirac's government and could destroy the presidential aspirations of his party's two leading candidates -- Villepin and his rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarkozy was blamed for fueling last fall's riots with derogatory and inflammatory comments directed at youths in the suburban housing projects.
Villepin attempted to capitalize on Sarkozy's political misfortunes by pushing a law he said was intended to give companies greater incentive to hire young people. Now, many members of Villepin's party are distancing themselves from the prime minister. French newspapers on Thursday began reporting leaks from anonymous government officials that Chirac is threatening to fire Villepin if he does not resolve the crisis quickly.
The law, scheduled to take effect in April, would allow employers to fire workers under age 26 without cause during their first two years on the job.
Under existing law, it is impossible to fire even the most incompetent workers without huge financial liabilities for companies. College students, other young people and unions say the new law discriminates against the young by denying them the job security that older workers have.
Even as Ethuin, the bike rental shop owner, surveyed the damage along his block Thursday afternoon, he couldn't bring himself to criticize the young people whose demonstration brought the violence to his doorstep.
"They have no jobs," he said. "It's not their fault."
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 01:44 pm |
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Randy in Pensacola wrote: Sounds like some bar owners pissed off someone with power....... That can't be it. The TABC and the city of Irving are sweeping through all bars, the oddest part is that they have made arrests of people in hotel bars that are also staying at the hotels. Their claim; If you are legally intoxicated and "pose a threat to yourself or others" in public, they will arrest you. You won't see me in Irving any time soon.
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marc
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 12:43 pm |
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Dave wrote: Randy in Pensacola wrote:
Sounds like some bar owners pissed off someone with power.......
Yup...
We're going through a similar situation with one of the bars here in town. Pissed off some of the neighbors (they've had over 400 complaints in the last year or two) with a lot of noise and empty containers in the street and on the yards nearby...
That would piss me off too....
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 11:15 am |
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What a Dipshit...
Uh, officer, is this really crack I bought?
Man arrested after allegedly handing pipe to cops for an authenticity check
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:31 p.m. ET March 22, 2006
TAMPA, Fla. - A man is behind bars in Tampa after allegedly asking two uniformed officers to test a crack pipe.
Police say the man doubted whether he was being sold actual crack cocaine, so he approached the officers and asked them to test his pipe so he could be sure.
Turned out it was the real thing. Authorities say the man was arrested after the residue in his pipe tested positive for crack cocaine.
He's listed in jail records as a security worker at MacDill Air Force Base.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11963554/
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Dave
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 11:02 am |
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Randy in Pensacola wrote:
Sounds like some bar owners pissed off someone with power.......
Yup...
We're going through a similar situation with one of the bars here in town. Pissed off some of the neighbors (they've had over 400 complaints in the last year or two) with a lot of noise and empty containers in the street and on the yards nearby...
Same thing happening. Local Alcohol Control folks went in lookin' for reasons to close the place down. It's a combo bar/hotel. (it's on the National Historical Registry and a landmark on Route 66) Went so far as chemical testing drinks and looking at exactly where people were consuming alcohol on the premises...
http://www.aztechotel.com/
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 04:04 am |
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| Sounds like some bar owners pissed off someone with power.......
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Mikey
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Posted: Fri Mar 24th, 2006 03:32 am |
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marc wrote:
I would be interested in knowing what legally constitutes public intoxication....We got a few law suits back here on that subject....
If they consider being drunk in a bar 'public" intoxication..wouldn't they also have to consider it then to be consumption in public?/..I know in alot of places it is also illegal to consume in public..makes ya wonder what this is all about. Sounds like someone is wanting prohibition to make a comeback.Where is all this BS gonna end?..I am all for keeping drunks off the roads..But when the LEo can come into a bar and arrest ya??..thats a bit much
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 09:48 pm |
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marc wrote: I would be interested in knowing what legally constitutes public intoxication....We got a few law suits back here on that subject.... I think it is a little tricky since you have to also consider some of this is 'private property'. My understanding is that they are going on the premise that since the place is open to the general public, it is public. I personally am boycotting any city that gets involved in this, and telling everyone else too.
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marc
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 08:49 pm |
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| I would be interested in knowing what legally constitutes public intoxication....We got a few law suits back here on that subject....
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weasle
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 08:11 pm |
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| big brother gotta oversea every part of yer life nowa days. what a crock.
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zippo
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 06:15 pm |
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empty wrote:
TABC officials said the sweep concerned saving lives, not individual rights. Harvey and others interviewed by NBC 5 said they believe drunken driving to be unacceptable, although Harvey wanted to confirm that the United States remains a free country.
Boy that sounds like the left, Ted, Hillary, etc. People need taking care of from craddle to grave. And people bitch about the Homeland Security Act.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 05:26 pm |
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Bar Sweep Sparks Controversy
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission sent a message to bar patrons last week.
TABC agents and Irving police swept through 36 Irving bars and arrested about 30 people on charges of public intoxication. Agency representatives say the move came as a proactive measure to curtail drunken driving.
North Texans interviewed by NBC 5, however, worried that the sweep went too far.
At one location, for example, agents and police arrested patrons of a hotel bar. Some of the suspects said they were registered at the hotel and had no intention of driving. Arresting authorities said the patrons were a danger to themselves and others.
"Going to a bar is not an opportunity to go get drunk," TABC Capt. David Alexander said. "It's to have a good time but not to get drunk."
Dallas comedian Steve Harvey agreed with the Texas residents who said the arrests infringed on individual rights.
"If a guy's got a designated driver, go ahead and let him get toasted," Harvey told NBC 5.
Texas law states that inebriated individuals could be subjected to arrest anywhere for public intoxication. Harvey and other North Texans called the measure extreme.
"That seems to be an extreme case," one man said. "You are self-contained, in the hotel, you're not going in the streets, it seems a little ridiculous."
TABC officials said the sweep concerned saving lives, not individual rights. Harvey and others interviewed by NBC 5 said they believe drunken driving to be unacceptable, although Harvey wanted to confirm that the United States remains a free country.
"Freedom of drinking should always be allowed, and it is only American to let a guy get drunk where he wants to get drunk," Harvey said..
http://www.nbc5i.com/newsarchive/8169246/detail.html
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 04:35 pm |
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Dave wrote: This guy's gonna be showing up in the Darwin Awards...
Man dies stuck in mud after running from deputies
Exhaustion, exposure thought to blame; toxicology tests pending
They had a rather large spiel on the news about this one. There are places around here where the ground can seriously absorb some water before there is any run off. That muck is almost like quicksand.
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zippo
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 04:03 pm |
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HUH!!!!!!!!!!!
J-porn awards go down from the sublime to the ridiculous
Weekly Playboy (3/28)
Japan's adult cinema industry is, if nothing else, enterprising. But there's a fine line between innovation and sheer stupidity, with Weekly Playboy (3/28) having little difficulty finding loads of the latter, which it promptly rewards with prizes.
Picking up the best director's award by the skin of its teeth, literally, was "Hokei wo Nameru Onna Densetsu," a movie that gives a totally new meaning to the term "skin flick" as it features women who enjoy lapping up foreskins.
"We wanted to improve the social standing of foreskins," director Rei Kudo tells Weekly Playboy. "To have our love for skins recognized is truly a great honor. Thank you very much."
Dominating the awards was the movie's lead actress Ann Namba, who picked up 11 prizes in the weekly's stupidest adult movie awards.
Manzo Karita, a prominent director, was not surprised at Namba's success.
"She'll do absolutely anything," Karita tells Weekly Playboy."
Actually, though most makers managed to come up with some very good silly movies, there weren't enough strong actresses or new programs to take the awards away from her.
The 'Kigurumi' series was a new genre that mixed absurdity with geek-type fetishes, but it was nowhere near a match for Ann and her domination of the digital media."
The "Kigurumi" series to which Karita refers has to go down as one of the more bizarre types of adult movies made. It's common for a certain type of Japanese otaku, or geek, to dress up in a full body suit, or kigurumi, made to resemble a manga cartoon character. Usually, the kigurumi are innocent and make their appearances at cosplay, dress-up events. However, for the "Kigurumi" series of movies, an actress clad in a naked form of the full body cartoon character was subjected to a sequence of saucy and sordid scenes.
Other notable winners of the weekly's worst awards included "Aichikyu F***," where the stars dressed up in costumes identical to those worn by the mascots at the enormously successful World Expo Japan hosted last year, while "Shishimai F***," features a dalliance between thespians taking part in a traditional lion dance.
"Radio Controlled Panchira" takes the cake for being the most brazen movie, as it panders to dismal types who get their kicks looking up women's dresses, but gets its footage from a camera attached to the roof of a radio-controlled toy car that is maneuvered between the legs of unsuspecting women.
"There's a rumor the next movie in the series could be made using a toy submarine," Weekly Playboy says. (By Ryann Connell)
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zippo
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Posted: Thu Mar 23rd, 2006 04:02 pm |
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Figures, since all the Motor Clothes are probably made there
March 20, 2006
Harley-Davidson Names Dealer in China
March 23, 2006 09:01:23 (ET)
MILWAUKEE, March 23, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Harley-Davidson (HDI, Trade) today announced the next step in its market entry into mainland China, with the appointment of Beijing Feng Huo Lun (FHL) as the first authorized Harley- Davidson dealer there. Operating as Beijing Harley-Davidson, the dealership will offer Harley-Davidson(R) motorcycles, related products and after-sales service.
"Harley-Davidson is excited to embark on the journey of selling our motorcycles in China and we are proud to be in Beijing," said David Foley, Harley-Davidson's Managing Director in China. "The quality of the Beijing Harley-Davidson dealership experience will be first-class in every respect. Customers will get a real understanding and appreciation of the Harley- Davidson lifestyle."
Beijing Harley-Davidson will have an initial staff of 14. The dealership is located on the Fourth Ring Road, just outside the downtown area in northeast Beijing. The dealership is headed by FHL founder, owner and Executive Director Wan Jidong.
"Harley-Davidson has selected one of the most well-established retailers of imported motorcycles in China," said Foley. "Mr. Wan has more than 10 years' experience selling and servicing imported heavyweight and premium motorcycles. Moreover, he and his management team are motorcycle enthusiasts who share a passion for riding and who understand the market."
Beijing Harley-Davidson will celebrate its official grand opening in early April with festivities at the dealership including an event for motorcycle enthusiasts. The dealership will sell a range of Harley-Davidson Touring, Softail(R) and VRSC motorcycles, Genuine Parts and Accessories, and General Merchandise, including Harley-Davidson MotorClothes(R) apparel, and collectibles.
In addition to motorcycle sales and service, the dealer will offer rider training, organized rides and events. The dealer currently has a large riders' club in Beijing.
Harley-Davidson has indicated that it expects market entry into China to be a gradual process. According to the Company, the leisure-oriented market for premium, heavyweight motorcycles is just beginning to emerge in China, with market development limited by ownership and riding restrictions in most large cities and on highways, and by limited but growing disposable income. Harley-Davidson's long-term strategy in China seeks to address the riding restrictions over time and to help lead the development of a leisure-oriented heavyweight motorcycle market as consumer buying power grows.
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