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Democrats Use Racist Dog Whistles As A Measure Of Confidence
Editor Note:
A dog whistle is not silent to dogs and can be heard by them.
A "silent dog whistle" would be a dog whistle not heard by humans.
A racist dog whistle can be heard by people who are politically correct and only hear what outlets like cnn or msnbc repeat what their liberal dog masters report, which is mostly FAKE news.
This blog is like a "silent dog whistle" that is not heard by humans. No matter how many times a racist dog whistle is blown by liberal democrats I can't hear the call.
The metaphor or a "racist dog whistle" or a "silent dog whistle" is explained above.
Dogs respond to dog whistles people respond to words coded to sound like "racist dog whistles" that cnn and msnbc know liberal democrats will respond to and learn from.
These people include many who have a deranged state of mind that are easly influenced by those who deceive.
Liberal democrats don't deal in facts but do deal in FAKE news.
Liberal democrats are not rational thinkers and respond do "racist dog whistles".
It has been over 48 hours since the polls closed and Broward and Palm
Beach Counties are still finding and counting ballots – and the
Supervisors – Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher – cannot seem to say how
many ballots still exist or where these ballots came from, or where they
have been.
Senator Rubio, in his barrage of broadsides against Snipes earlier in the
day, pointed to the "slow drip" of tens of thousands of additional
ballots that were reported throughout the day Thursday, most of which
were favorable to several Democratic candidates.
Rubio said those late
disclosures violated Florida election law, which necessitates that
mail-in and early voting ballots be counted within 30 minutes of polls
closing.
Rubio and Scott both made it clear they have no confidence in Snipes' integrity.
A
U.S. Senate seat & a statewide cabinet officer are now potentially
in the hands of an elections supervisor with a history of incompetence
& of blatant violations of state & federal laws," Rubio wrote,
linking to a Miami Herald article describing several scandals that have
gripped Broward County’s Elections Department.
Earlier this year, a
judge found that Snipes had illegally destroyed ballots in a 2016
congressional contest, leading the secretary of state's office to assign
election monitors to supervise her.
In 2016, Brenda Snipes’ office posted election results half an hour
before polls closed – a violation of election law," Scott said. "That
same year, her office was sued for leaving amendments off of ballots.
In
2014, Brenda Snipes’ fellow Democrats accused her of individual and
systemic breakdowns that made it difficult for voters to cast regular
ballots. All Floridians should be concerned about that.
Without providing legally sufficient justification, Rubio said,
Democrat-controlled Broward and Palm Beach counties on Wednesday
afternoon continued to report new ballots, cutting into Scott's
already-thin lead and flipping the state's agriculture commissioner race
to Democrats.
Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Susan
Bucher told Fox News that Palm Beach is still counting about 2,000
mail-in ballots where voters circled or highlighted (by drawing an arrow
pointing at the candidate’s name) their choice, instead of filling in
the appropriate bubbles.
Rubio said those late
disclosures violated Florida election law, which necessitates that
mail-in and early voting ballots be counted within 30 minutes of polls
closing.
Broward election supervisors ongoing violation of Florida law
requiring timely reporting isn’t just annoying incompetence," Rubio
wrote. "It has opened the door for lawyers to come here & try to
steal a seat in the U.S. Senate & Florida Cabinet."
Florida
law dictates that if the margin in any race hits 0.25 percent or lower, a
manual recount of any ballots set aside from the machine recount will
be ordered -- reminiscent of the scene in the 2000 presidential
election, when the country was gripped by images of poll workers
counting votes deciphering hanging chads by hand.
Late
disclosures violated Florida election law, which necessitates that
mail-in and early voting ballots be counted within 30 minutes of polls
closing.
Why are these two florida counties still counting ballots if Florida law mandates mail-in and early voting ballots be counted within 30 minutes of the polls closing.
This is obvious corruption by Broward and Palm
Beach Counties
Supervisors – Brenda Snipes and Susan Bucher.
A Florida judge found that Brenda Snipes had illegally destroyed ballots in a 2016
congressional contest, leading the secretary of state's office to assign
election monitors to supervise her.
This reminds me of a story of sexual harasment at the USPS.
A worker had been found guilty of sexual harasment of female postal workers 5 times.
He was allowed back on the working floor each time because of supervision and union efforts to help him keep his job.
The last time he was allowed on the workroom floor it was required that he have 24/7 supervision by a supervisor following him like a dog watching him as he worked at the post office.
He should have been fired but because of union efforts he was not.
Brenda Snipes should have been removed as a Broward County election official.
She was not and is still allowed to supervise the counting of ballots while being monitored by election monitors following her like a dog watching her.
Snipes like the sexual preditor perp in the post office are allowed to continue there efforts because THEY ARE NOT HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS!
Lawyers love hanging chads and corrupt democrat officials who allow them to steal an election using fraud.
Obvious election corruption and fraud is allowed to continue.
Rush Limbaugh provided his predictions for the midterm elections during a
wide-ranging interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night.
“Two part question, predictions, and what do you say to people that
so respect what you have to say about this election in 19 days?” Hannity
asked.
“I still say that I think there are things that have yet
to happen that are going to determine outcomes in some races that we
don’t know. So it’s still very hard to predict. Kavanaugh feedback
reaction was 100% positive for Republicans, Democrats really blew that.
But 435 of these things — I don’t know. I just rely on hope,” Limbaugh
stated. (RELATED: Rush Limbaugh Uses Lessons From 2016 To Predict What Will Happen If Democrats Retake Congress)
When pressed for a definitive prediction, he responded, “We hold the
House and we increase the Senate because I think that is justice. I
think that’s just, I think the [Democratic] Party deserves to lose in
the single biggest electoral landslide defeat in my lifetime. The
actions they’ve taken just in the last month.”
One race in particular that Republicans are feeling confident about is the one for North Dakota Senate between the incumbent Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Rep. Kevin Cramer. The most recent public polling from Fox News shows Cramer up 12 points among likely voters, with a margin of error of 3.5 points.
Editor Note
Rush gave this interview 2 weeks ago.
Today is Tuesday 11/6/2018 and the generic polls are all giving Republicans the edge in various races.
What this means is the dems will not win as many seats as predicted by polls in the past.
What this means is the dems will not get the seats a party normally wins in an mid term election.
I really think Rush is right about his mid term election prediction.
Dems need 23 house seats for pelosi to bcome speaker again.
Even if the dems get 23 seats in the mid terms it will still be a victory for Republicans because normally in mid term elections the party not in power gains many more seats that 23 in the house.
The dems have lied their way into a mid term election loss as Rush Limbaugh has predicted.
An addict will do anything to get the next "hit".
They will lie, cheat, steal or sell their own mother.
All an addict cares about is getting the next "hit".
They don't care about themselves, only the next "hit"
For the liberal mob is all about getting the next "hit" or fix.
The liberal mob gets a "hit" or "fix" every time there is an opportunity to lie about President Trump on the news.
The liberal mob is a group of addicts addicted to their liberal views of President Trump.
An addict's actions are not logical and seem to not make sense.
To them the most important thing is getting a "hit" or fix for their addiction.
So when you see the angry mob of liberal democrates in the news you can be sure all they want is another "hit" or fix.
This hit or fix can also be in the form of fake news reports.
The liberal mob includes the news media that reports fake news manufactured by their fellow addicts who lie, cheat, steal and would even sell their own mother for a "hit" or fix pushing lies about President Trump.
Until the above mentioned addicts go into a "dextox" center like Rush Limbaugh's
Talk show or website they will just continue to be liberal addicts.
They will continue to only think of the next "hit" piece on President Trump.
Addicts don't care about themselves or anyone else, only the next "hit" or fix.
This is what conservatives face in the media, which also is just another angry mob of addicts looking for a "hit" or fix. This is what republicans who support Presidnet Trump face also.
The liberal mob is a dangerous addicted mob who will do or say anything. They become violent when they need a fix. They advocate violence to reach their goals.
I suggest dealing with the liberal mob as addicts and remember they are sick and only want a fix.
When confronted with violence defend yourself as necessary.
Remember you can't convince a drunk when drinking to stop drinking and so it is with the liberal mob.
Christine Ford Wrote Article on Self-Hypnosis Used to “Create Artificial Situations”
Christine Ford published a paper in 2008 that explains how it is
possible to self-hypnotize and invent stories (and memories) that the
person wants to believe.
Christine Ford has not turned over her therapist’s notes to the Senate
regarding her suppressed memories about Judge Kavanaugh abusing her
decades earlier.
If the memories were revealed through hypnosis they would be
“absolutely inadmissible” in the court of law in many states, including
New York and Maryland.
If she was able to self-hypnotize herself,
she could have easily planted false memories of Brett Kavanaugh
attempting to rape her. Additionally, this would come in handy when she
quickly volunteered to take a polygraph. Why was she so eager to take
the polygraph? No one prompted her to do so.
A Body Language Expert Caught Dr. Christine Ford in Several Lies an Insists: "Something's Wrong Mentally"
One of Christine Blasey Ford’s research articles in 2008 included a
study on self-hypnosis. The practice of self-hypnosis is used to
retrieve important memories and “create artificial situations.”
People
have said that this is why polygraphs aren’t used as evidence in a
court of law. If the person being tested believes the situation
happened, then in their mind it isn’t a lie. If they believed they were
assaulted by someone, then to them it isn’t a lie. People have been
known to ace a polygraph test this way.
If Mrs.Ford is an expert on self-hypnosis, couldn’t she, in fact,
convince herself that Brett Kavanaugh attempted to rape her? It would
certainly help her to pass a polygraph test. Is this why Ford attorney
instructed her to stay away from the polygraph questions?
It was obvious to me that this woman was putting on a scripted staged presentation by the artificial way she acted.
You didn't need to be a body language expert to have noticed something was wrong mentally.
If she did use self hypnosis on herself this would help explain why she acted so strange.
I think she has used self hypnosis on herself in the past to become a victim of something that never happened.
She wrote a paper on how its done and would know how to do it.
I also think it is possible she has used this method and it has made her into a kind of sombe or freak that has multiple personalities that control her.
I don't think she is real at all. She seems to be controlled by her self hypnosis and her controlling lawyers with the DNC.
She has been allowed to put on her carnival side show to convince people of a lie.
She admitted in her presentation that she did not has many friends in school. I can understand why.
Analysis of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations
Memorandum
TO:
FROM:
DATE:
RE:
All Republican Senators
Rachel Mitchell, Nominations Investigative Counsel
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
September 30, 2018
Analysis of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s Allegations
Please permit me this opportunity to present my independent assessment of Dr. Christine Blasey
Ford’s allegations against Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Before I do this, I want to emphasize two
important points:
1. This memorandum contains my own independent assessment of Dr. Ford’s allegations,
based upon my independent review of the evidence and my nearly 25 years of experience
as a career prosecutor of sex-related and other crimes in Arizona. This memorandum does
not necessarily reflect the views of the Chairman, any committee member, or any other
senator. No senator reviewed or approved this memorandum before its release, and I was
not pressured in any way to write this memorandum or to write any words in this
memorandum with which I do not fully agree. The words written in this memorandum are
mine, and I fully stand by all of them. While I am a registered Republican, I am not a
political or partisan person.
2. A Senate confirmation hearing is not a trial, especially not a prosecution. The Chairman
made the following statement on September 25, 2018, after he hired me:
As I have said, I’m committed to providing a forum to both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh
on Thursday that is safe, comfortable and dignified. The majority members have followed
the bipartisan recommendation to hire as staff counsel for the committee an experienced
career sex-crimes prosecutor to question the witnesses at Thursday’s hearing. The goal is
to de-politicize the process and get to the truth, instead of grandstanding and giving
senators an opportunity to launch their presidential campaigns.
I’m very appreciative that Rachel Mitchell has stepped forward to serve in this important and serious role. Ms.
Mitchell has been recognized in the legal community for her experience and objectivity.
I’ve worked to give Dr. Ford an opportunity to share serious allegations with committee
members in any format she’d like after learning of the allegations. I promised Dr. Ford
that I would do everything in my power to avoid a repeat of the ‘circus’ atmosphere in the
hearing room that we saw the week of September 4. I’ve taken this additional step to have
questions asked by expert staff counsel to establish the most fair and respectful treatment
of the witnesses possible.
That is how I approached my job. There is no clear standard of proof for allegations made
during the Senate’s confirmation process. But the world in which I work is the legal
world, not the political world. Thus, I can only provide my assessment of Dr. Ford’s
allegations in that legal context.
In the five-page memo,
obtained by The Washington Post, Rachel Mitchell outlines more than
half a dozen reasons why she thinks the testimony of Christine Blasey
Ford — who has accused Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a house in
suburban Maryland when they were teenagers in the early 1980s — has some
key inconsistencies.
“A ‘he said, she said’
case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than
that,” Mitchell writes in the memo, sent Sunday night to all Senate
Republicans. “Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and
those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate
them.”
Mitchell continued: “For the reasons discussed below, I do not think
that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence
before the [Senate Judiciary] Committee. Nor do I believe that this
evidence is sufficient to satisfy the preponderance-of-the-evidence
standard.”
In the memo, Mitchell argued that Ford has not offered a consistent
account of the alleged assault, including when exactly it occurred.
Mitchell also noted that Ford did not identify Kavanaugh by name as her
attacker in key pieces of evidence, including notes from sessions with
her therapist — records that Ford’s lawyers declined to provide to the
Senate Judiciary Committee.
Ford testified before the panel Thursday that she is “100 percent” sure Kavanaugh was her attacker. “I
believed he was going to rape me,” she told the panel. “I tried to yell
for help. When I did, Brett put his hand over my mouth to stop me from
yelling. This is what terrified me the most.”
But
in the memo, Mitchell also argued that Ford “has no memory of key
details of the night in question — details that could help corroborate
her account,” nor has Ford given a consistent account of the alleged
assault. Noting that Ford did not remember in what house the incident
allegedly occurred, or how she left the gathering and got back home,
Mitchell said “her inability to remember this detail raises significant
questions.”
Mitchell also stressed that nobody
who Ford has identified as having attended the gathering — including
Mark Judge, Patrick Smyth and Leland (Ingham) Keyser — has been able to
directly corroborate Ford’s allegations. Keyser, however, has told the
Judiciary Committee that she believes Ford’s account.
Mitchell,
whom GOP senators selected to handle the questioning in last week’s
hearing with Ford and Kavanaugh, is a registered Republican who is chief
of the special victims division of the Maricopa County attorney’s
office in Phoenix. Although she asked Ford all of the questions posed by
Republican senators, she asked Kavanaugh only two rounds of questions
until GOP senators began speaking again.
Mitchell
stressed that she was “not pressured in any way to write this
memorandum or to write any words in this memorandum with which I do not
fully agree.” The memo obtained by The Post does not include any
analysis of her questions to Kavanaugh.
“There
is no clear standard of proof for allegations made during the Senate’s
confirmation process,” Mitchell wrote in the memo. “But the world in
which I work is the legal world, not the political world. Thus, I can
only provide my assessment of Dr. Ford’s allegations in that legal
context.”
The prosecutor joined a private
meeting with all Senate Republicans on Thursday after the hearing, where
she told the senators that after the eight hours of testimony she
heard, she would not have prosecuted Kavanaugh for assault, according to
two officials familiar with her remarks.
The
committee is also sending to all Senate Republicans a detailed timeline
of key events regarding Ford’s accusation, including when she first
approached her congresswoman, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.), with her
allegations and the committee’s investigative work.
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) responded to both Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi
(D-CA) denouncing her remarks
calling for citizens to confront members of President Donald Trump’s
administration in public, saying Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy” the two
“will do anything to protect their leadership.”
“You know, I was surprised at Chuck Schumer, you know reached into
the other house to do that,” Waters said to host Joy Reid. “I’ve not
quite seen that done before, but one of the things I recognize, being an
elected official, is in the final analysis, you know, leadership like
Chuck Schumer’s will do anything that they think is necessary to protect
their leadership.”
Editors Note:
In my opinion schumer and pelosi are just as crazy as maxine waters. Its like the pot calling the kettle the same thing. All 3 of these people are a total disgrace to America. 3 losers for sure.
They know they are losing ground everyday to President Donald Trump.
These people will say and do anything to try to stop President Trump but most of there efforts are failing.
I hope maxine just continues to be her crazy self as usual and continues to be on display as an idiot in congress.
From a human perspective, it’s sad to see anyone go into a Christless eternity, and indeed God Himself has “no pleasure” in it (cf. Ezekiel 33:11). But we can’t escape the truth: “it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment …” (Hebrews 9:27).
While living to 76 might seem like a decent lifespan, death in reality is “the last enemy” (1 Corinthians 15:26). This is true no matter how long this was postponed—even the prodigiously long lifespans of our ancestors recorded in the chronogenealogy of Genesis 5 couldn’t change that fact. Indeed, after the lifespan of every patriarch (except Enoch who escaped death), we are reminded over and over, “and he died”.
However, atheists naively regard death as a natural part of the evolutionary process. Indeed, Hawking himself gave a defiant interview to the leftist British newspaper, the Guardian, back in 2011.1 He was reported as claiming:
The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a ‘fairy story’ for people afraid of death.
You must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he became to be so silly.—C.S. Lewis on the Bulverism fallacy
Unfortunately, this commits a fallacy rife in atheopathic agitprop, what C.S. Lewis called Bulverism:
you must show that a man is wrong before you start explaining why he is wrong. The modern method is to assume without discussion that he is wrong and then distract his attention from this (the only real issue) by busily explaining how he came to be so silly. In the course of the last fifteen years I have found this vice so common that I have had to invent a name for it. I call it “Bulverism”.
In Hawking’s case, he tries to explain away why (he thinks) people believe in an afterlife before demonstrating that this belief is wrong. However, similar arguments can always be turned back on their user, which is one reason this is a silly mode of argumentation. I.e. “The belief that no afterlife awaits us is a ‘fairy story’ for those afraid that there really might be a God who is also a righteous Judge.” Also, Hawking’s account is demonstrably wrong for many people, e.g. C.S. Lewis again:
I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.
It’s now unfortunately too late for Hawking, but it’s not too late for anyone reading this—there really is Good News
CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a switch was in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train into a freight train and killing a conductor and an engineer in South Carolina.
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When crew members operating a local train were supposed to have moved their train into a siding and then re-set the switch so that the next train coming up the main line would stay on that line the crew members failed to reset the switch so the next through train entered the siding hit the parked train.
The csx signal system was down at the time so train dispatchers were directing trains with NO safety signals.
The switch to a train siding was set to divert a train to the siding. It was lined and locked for any train to be diverted off the main line.
Crew members FAILED to reset the switch back to allow any train to travel down the main line normally.
All it takes is 1 person to make a stupid mistake for a fatal accident to happen.
On Feb 4, 2018 a stupid mistake was made in Cayce, SC on Feb 4,2018
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The passenger train hurtled down a side track near Cayce (CAYsee) around 2:45 a.m. Sunday after a stop 10 miles (16 kilometers) north in Columbia because a switch had been locked in place, diverting it from the main line. A crew on the freight train had moved the switch to drive it from one side track — where it unloaded 34 train cars of automobiles — to the side track where it was parked. The switch was padlocked as it was supposed to be, Sumwalt said.
The system that operates the train signals in the area was down, so CSX dispatchers were operating them manually.
The Silver Star was going an estimated 59 mph (94 kph) when it struck the freight train, Gov. Henry McMaster said. It was the middle of the night, and many people were jolted from sleep by the crash and forced into the cold.
“I thought that I was dead,” said passenger Eric Larkin, of Pamlico County, North Carolina, who was dazed and limping after banging his knee.
Suddenly awake, Larkin said the train was shaking and jumping and his seat broke loose, slamming him into the row in front of him.
He heard screams and crying all around him as he tried to get out. Other passengers were bleeding.
The locomotives of both trains were crumpled on impact, and the Amtrak engine ended up on its side. One car in the middle of the Amtrak train was snapped in half, forming a V off to one side of the tracks.
Engineer Michael Kempf, 54, of Savannah, Georgia, and conductor Michael Cella, 36, of Orange Park, Florida, were killed, Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher said. Of the 116 people taken to four hospitals, only about a half dozen were admitted. The rest had minor injuries such as cuts, bruises or whiplash, authorities said.
“Any time you have anything that happens like that, you expect more fatalities. But God blessed us, and we only had the two,” Fisher said, her voice choked with emotion.
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On Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 a chartered Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat slammed into a garbage truck at a crossing where locals said the safety arms were down even when no trains approached. That accident in rural Virginia killed one person in the truck and injured six others.
And on Dec. 18, an Amtrak train ran off the rails along a curve during its inaugural run near Tacoma, Washington, killing three people and injuring dozens. It was going nearly 80 mph (128 kph), more than twice the speed limit.
“It’s becoming almost like an epidemic for Amtrak,” said Najmedin Meshkati, a University of Southern California engineering professor who has studied positive train control.
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People get frustrated when the see railroad crossing arms blocking the rail crossing when they malfunction.
I have seen this many times.
In a local town near where I live the main line goes through the middle of the town. There are 2 main crossings with crossing arms that have been known to malfunction.
Sometimes people think the railroad crossing arms are malfunctioning when in fact they are not.
(1) If a track crew is working nearby on the rails it can make the crossing arms come up and down and the safety lights to flash. You may not notice the track crew working on the track nearby if you don't look close. You think the rail crossing warning is malfunctioning so you cross the track after waiting 5 minutes or so even though the crossing arms are blocking the road.
Is this safe?
I would say no but if you can see a track crew nearby working on the track neaby it would mean the track crew had to call dispatch to keep that section of track clear of trains while they were working on the track. Also the track signals to other trains would tell the engineers to stop and not enter the block that the train crew was working on.
If railroad crossing arms are malfunctioning sometimes the just go up and down and up and down.
This also can mean a local track crew is nearby working on the track believe it or not.
It can also mean that the crossing arms are really malfunctioning.
I always wait 5 min or so and look down the track in the daytime to see if a track crew is working on the track nearby.
If I see a track crew I don't take a chance and go across the road even though the crossing arms arm down.
If the rail crossing has a track curve near by where you can't see a train approaching you are taking even more of a chance if you bypass the crossing arms.
If all this happens at night that adds another unsafe aspect to crossing a track that can lead to a train hitting your vechicle because of the blind spot!
Here is my advice for dealing with a railroad crossing that appears to be malfunctioning:
Find a nearby bridge that goes over the tracks so you can safely go across the road!
Also here is my advice about using amtrack to travel. DON'T.
Until nationwide positive train control is everywhere do not ride the rails using amtrack.
When train block signals fail dispatchers manually tell trains when to stop and go. (Blind leading the blind so to speak.)
The problem is train dispatchers can't know about switches that are thrown in the wrong position like what has happened recently in Cayce SC if the signal system is down.
How could they if the signal system was down? Also if the signal system was working they depend on the employees to have switched the side track switches back to the normal main line position as was not the case in Cayce SC.
If you are on an amtrack train the engineer could be traveling down the track with no signals depending on a blind track dispatcher telling him what to do!
I have never thought it was safe to travel on the rails on amtrack.
It still will not be safe even after positive train control is nationwide.
Positve train control sounds good but so does the "affordable care act".
A train travels over hundreds of switches and all it takes is just one that malfunctions or some railroad employee has failed to set a switch correctly.
I have personally seen the ribbon rail on the main line track move like a snake when a bridge crew had to spike up the rails very fast because an amtrack train was approaching.
This happened because the bridge crew foreman was a DRUNK and did not correctly get the track time for the crew to work on the track. He was an idiot, a part time chicken farmer and full time drunk.
The track was spiked up every 5th or 6th railroad tie.
The amtrack train engineer had a slow order but ignored it! Another idiot!
The passenger train was moving much to fast for the track conditions.
The amtrack enginner was only thinking about trying to stay on time.
He did not have the passengers safety in mind nor the bridge crew working on the bridge.
From that time on I knew riding on an amtrack train was NOT SAFE and never would be.
Not only are track crossing hazards, so are potential mistakes by railroad employees.
Remember:
(1) if you see a malfunctioning signal crossing do not cross the track at that crossing. Take the time to drive up or down the road to a bridge that over the track and cross over there. Don't be stupid just because you are in a hurry.
(2) Never ever ride on any amtrack train because they will never be safe for the above reasons.
(3) How do I know all this?
I am either a former employee or know one. Take your pick.
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All it takes is just one out of hundreds or thousands to be set in the wrong position.
