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“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
One would think the "dead man" would have stopped that.
Trains don't just take off on their own.
Right, they have a "Dead Man's Switch" that has to be held by the engineer.Originally Posted by tod evans
Used to be a pedal. Now it's a motion sensor. No motion for a set period of time? An alarm sounds. Still no motion in the cab? Shutdown.
Yes, I saw a movie where somebody put a toolbox on the pedal.
Now how could there be a runaway these days?
"Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
"Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
"Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul
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Imagine how bad this story would be if people were aboard the train.
"Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration is minding my own business."
Calvin Coolidge
^^^ THIS
Jer. 11:18-20. "The Kingdom of God has come upon you." -- Matthew 12:28
Paging Ayn Rand ... house courtesy phone for Ayn Rand ... repeat, courtesy phone for Ayn Rand ...
The Bastiat Collection · FREE PDF · FREE EPUB · PAPER Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
There is a Chinese cemetery nearby. Just sayin'.
It's weird if you look at Kelso, CA on google maps, then zoom out, there's a bunch of other nearby town names with nothing there.. not sure why. There are some buildings in Kelso, but just straight up desert in some of the neighboring towns.
"He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
Why does everybody cream their jeans about how "beautiful" California is?
From what I've seen, most of it is ugly ass boiling hot desert...the dark side of the moon has prettier real estate.
“It is not true that all creeds and cultures are equally assimilable in a First World nation born of England, Christianity, and Western civilization. Race, faith, ethnicity and history leave genetic fingerprints no ‘proposition nation’ can erase." -- Pat Buchanan
Republican train trying to escape the state. Lived by the Roll Free or Die motto.
The desert is a cool place to visit in the fall and spring. The eastern Sierras are amazing. Then you have coastal Southern California, which is the most temperate place on the entire planet. It's like always 70 degrees. Big Sur, redwood forests in the north. Mendocino coast.
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"He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
Death Valley.. Famous for being the hottest place on earth.
"He's talkin' to his gut like it's a person!!" -me
"dumpster diving isn't professional." - angelatc
"You don't need a medical degree to spot obvious bullshit, that's actually a separate skill." -Scott Adams
"When you are divided, and angry, and controlled, you target those 'different' from you, not those responsible [controllers]" -Q
"Each of us must choose which course of action we should take: education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience to bring about necessary changes. But let it not be said that we did nothing." - Ron Paul
"Paul said "the wave of the future" is a coalition of anti-authoritarian progressive Democrats and libertarian Republicans in Congress opposed to domestic surveillance, opposed to starting new wars and in favor of ending the so-called War on Drugs."
Because in the 1880s, a steam locomotive would go approximately a hundred miles on a tender full of water. So, water facilities had to be provided at regular intervals, and since alpha-numeric garbage was not yet the fashion, they got proper names.
As for why these water stops are now ghost towns, I guess not everyone can be suckered to go live in the inhospitable desert by a few photos taken with an orange filter to make the browns pop.
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