Friday - March 12, 2010
‘Terrorist British Airways worker planned to take advantage of strike’ a pox on unions and muslims
Two things this country and the world can do without. Unions and muslims.
So there I was last night looking up flights to the USA on Brit. Air. Originally I had planned to use ship, those plans are not abandoned, but there was a very good write up in the weekend travel section of a little known flight BA runs where one can clear US Immigration at Shannon Airport. Huh? Now that’d be ideal. The filght takes an hour longer then the regular overseas flight BUT, you save time once arriving. So anyhow I’m trying to get further info and as it’s a business class flight I know it won’t be cheap. I also know that the damn union is striking BA and positions are being staffed by volunteers and I guess, strike breakers. So it is pretty risky. And then I woke up to this when I brought in the morning paper. Damn these useless bastards.
Yeah I know I’m not supposed to think this way but have to ask anyway.
Are you all certain that genocide isn’t after all, the only answer? This is a scary read. The boat’s getting to look good again. Oh right. Pirates. Can’t win these days.
BA worker ‘planned to use strike to become suicide bomber and passed on secrets to terror masterminds in Yemen’By SAM GREENHILL and PAUL SIMS
A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew strikes to launch an attack, it was alleged yesterday.
Rajib Karim, a trusted IT expert at the airline, planned to volunteer for crew training to help keep flights running during the threatened walkouts.
He also used his access to BA’s computer systems to gain insider knowledge about airline security and pass it to terror masterminds in Yemen and Pakistan, a court heard.
Union bosses seized on the revelations to claim that passengers could be endangered by BA’s tactics for beating the planned strikes. The airline says it has more than 1,000 volunteer staff ready to work as cabin crew in the event of industrial action.
Karim, 30, was born in Bangladesh and came to Britain a few years ago to get a UK passport which would smooth his terror mission, it was claimed.
Two years ago he secured a full-time job at a BA call centre in Newcastle upon Tyne and became ‘heavily involved’ in software development.
But he had a ‘clear intention and desire’ for martyrdom and wanted to become a suicide bomber, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.
His computer allegedly contained encrypted files showing he was in contact with terrorists abroad.
Karim requested ‘permission’ from ‘those who appear to be able to give [it]’ to carry out an atrocity in the UK and suggested to colleagues in Yemen that he might be able to train as a cabin crew member to work on planes during strikes.
This would give him ‘inside knowledge’ of training and procedures that could assist in carrying out a terror attack, the court heard.
He also offered to travel to Yemen and Pakistan to train in terrorism, and suggested other people he knew who could potentially be recruited.
The court heard that Karim gave details of ways in which BA security systems and computer servers could be subjected to physical or internal attack to inflict ‘severe financial losses’.
Thousands of BA passengers face travel chaos as cabin crew plan TWO crippling strikes
By RAY MASSEY
Last updated at 1:48 PM on 12th March 2010British Airways cabin crew are to stage a series of crippling strikes threatening travel chaos for more than a million passengers, it was announced today.
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Permalink • Monday - March 08, 2010
burglary victim chases off bad guys but now regrets not shooting them as cops arrive 50 min. later
I go through the papers every morning and grab coffee etc. and generally get worked up even before booting the puter. That reminds me. I really NEED to take a typing course. I’m fast with two or three fingers but wish I could type properly. But that’s not the topic. Burglars and a shotgun and a home owner are.
So then, while going though the first paper I landed on page 13 of The Telegraph and saw this headline.
I WISH I HAD OPENED FIRE, SAYS FATHER WHO CHASED BURGLARS.
Which was alongside this photo, but not on line. So again, this is a scan.
The photo in the hard copy of course is very sharp and clear.
He should have shot the scum. They’ll now go off and find a more helpless target.
Burglars make off as police take 50 minutes to attend emergency callTwo burglars who a pub landlord confronted with a shotgun to protect his family made off after police took 50 minutes to respond to his emergency call.
By Nigel BunyanSimon Thomas, 45, initially pointed his shotgun at the raiders and later pursued them in his Land Rover. By the time police reached The Anchor Inn at Barcombe, east Sussex, the men were nowhere to be seen.
Mr Thomas, whose children, Toby, 14, and Holly, 12, were asleep at the time of the raid, said: “If push came to shove I would have opened fire.
“In some ways I wish I had done – to stop them. Both my children were asleep in the house and protecting them was my priority.“I don’t want people to think I’m some gun nut, but I was prepared to do pretty much whatever it would take. I would not hesitate to do it again to protect my children and my livelihood.”
Mr Thomas, an experienced hunter with a collection of licenced guns, recalled hearing the burglars moving about outside shortly before 2am on Saturday.
“I am a firearms man and have been for 25 years, so I went to my cabinet and got out a shotgun. I couldn’t believe what was happening.“One of them was loading the bikes into his car and the other was breaking into the conservatory. I opened the bedroom window and shouted out `Do not move – I have got a loaded gun on you`.” Mr Thomas conned the burglars into believing he had already dialled 999 and that the police were on their way.
When they saw his shotgun they begged for their lives and started unloading their haul of stolen mountain bikes from their car. They claimed to have thought the premises were empty.The raiders drove off into the night as Mr Thomas lowered his gun and finally went to summon police.
He said: “I called the police and they told me they didn’t have anyone available to come over right away but to put the gun away so I did.”
A few moments later he gave chase in his Land Rover but lost the pair as they drove through Barcombe.Sussex Police confirmed that it took them 50 minutes to get officers to the scene and that there was no trace of the offenders when they arrived despite control room staff having graded the alert as one requiring an “immediate response”.
A police spokesman said: “The call was graded for immediate response. Officers arrived as soon as possible but were responding to other calls at the time.”
The thieves were still at large last night as police continued to investigate the attempted burglary.
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Permalink • Sunday - March 07, 2010
Florida challenges Britain for most ‘Idiotic’
There’s a reason that Fark.com has a ‘Florida’ tag for its submissions. Per capita there are more weird laws and stupid people in Florida than in Britain or California. This is based on my non-scientific, highly-biased, survey of the news. The only place that has a higher concentration of idiots is the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, and the Obama White House. But that last fact is well-known.
So, today’s story from Florida:
As authorities nationwide warn motorists of the dangers of driving while texting, Florida Keys law enforcement officers add a new caution: Don’t try to shave your privates, either.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at Mile Marker 21 on Cudjoe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from the passenger seat.
“She said she was meeting her boyfriend in Key West and wanted to be ready for the visit,” Trooper Gary Dunick said. “If I wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have believed it. About 10 years ago I stopped a guy in the exact same spot ... who had three or four syringes sticking out of his arm. It was just surreal and I thought, ‘Nothing will ever beat this.’ Well, this takes it.”
Let’s recap: a 37-yr-old woman is driving to meet her boyfriend. While doing so she is shaving her muff, thereby removing any muffness, while her ex-husband drives from the passenger seat.
I’ve got a problem here, how many ex-husbands would consent to drive the ex-wife to meet her new boyfriend? Or does he get off watching her shave?
But, it gets better…
If that weren’t enough, Megan Mariah Barnes was not supposed to be driving and her 1995 Ford Thunderbird was not supposed to be on the road.
The day before the wreck, Barnes was convicted in an Upper Keys court of DUI with a prior and driving with a suspended license, said Monroe County Assistant State Attorney Colleen Dunne. Barnes was ordered to impound her car, and her driver’s license was revoked for five years, after which time she must have a Breathalyzer ignition interlock device on any vehicle she drives, Dunne said. Barnes also was sentenced to nine months’ probation.
Barnes and Charles Judy were southbound in her Thunderbird at 11 a.m. when they slammed into the back of a 2006 Chevrolet pickup driven by David Schoff of Palm Bay. His passengers were a man and two women; the latter were treated for minor injuries at Lower Keys Medical Center, FHP spokesman Alex Annunziato said.
Schoff had slowed to about 5 mph to make a turn when the Thunderbird hit him, traveling about 45 mph, which was within the speed limit, Dunick said.
Barnes allegedly drove another half-mile, then switched seats with Judy, who allegedly claimed to be driving, Annunziato said.
I’m doing something stupid. I’m putting myself in the ex-husbands shoes. If I were going to drive my ex-wife to meet with her new boyfriend, I would have insisted on driving while sitting in the driver’s seat. Just steering from the passenger side does NOT give me control over accelerator and brakes. Ex-wife could sit in the passenger seat and shave…whatever.
I don’t know why, but I suspect alcohol was involved… again!
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Permalink • Wednesday - March 03, 2010
govt. agency finds a brand new place and way to spend money they don’t work for.
BATS awarded to The Health and Safety Executive for make work projects spending other people’s money and being just plain schtupid if they believe farmers are dumb enough to buy this. Jeesh. I hope we haven’t sunk to this lunacy back home yet. Notice. I said “yet” coz ya never do know.
Forget my knot
SIR – Yesterday, I received a letter from the Health and Safety Executive entreating me to tie a small piece of green rope (provided) prominently in my yard, as a reminder to “Come home safe” from the potential dangers on the farm. I can apply for up to five more (free) green knots.
I cannot imagine any farmer in the land applying for little green knots to tie on the farm gate. This appears to be just a small example of Government waste.
Caroline Appelbe
Malmesbury, Wiltshire
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Permalink • Just for the hell of it even if I don’t understand the need.
I think they look fine and I guess this is an after the boob-job photo. The paper didn’t publish any before shots.
Anyway, why do women do this? I guess it’s strictly a female thing and if it makes em feel better about themselves, well heck. Go for it.
I just liked their looks and felt like posting them. But golly, £4,800. Each. That’s a pile of dollars. I had no clue or if I had I forgot about it, just how costly this sort of thing is. I think they should have spent it on computers and cars. Shows how different women heaven bless em, are.
Example. A guy with brother wins a lotto. Kinda doubt he’d be willing to pay for those (cough,cough) male enlargements I’ve heard about. Guy wouldn’t even discuss that sort of thing. Would we? Just a though. Oh yeah, another thought worth nothing. Just when was it that women became convinced they needed bigger boobs? And who convinced them? Was it a change in the culture, or had women always had this subject topmost in their minds but never discussed openly?
This isn’t a bad article actually. Human interest for a change before getting back to the usual.
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:00 AM on 03rd March 2010What would you buy if you won the lottery? It’s a question everyone has pondered.
Here, the Mail speaks to 11 winners to find out what they spent their cash on - including a girl who bought her two sisters breast enlargement operations.
Bonnier lasses: Sarah Cockings (centre) from Newcastle won £3million in May 2005 and treated herself and her sisters Emma (left) and Alex to boob jobs costing £4,800 each
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Permalink • Tuesday - March 02, 2010
there’s NO WAY to follow Drew’s post with anything remotely close. But there’s this larceny
Here we go again but this time it’s a teen in England and the outlet is once again ...
McDonalds
Poor boy spilled hot tea on his leg while driving over a speed bump. Maybe. It’s again McDees fault of course.
When you folks get a hot drink from a take out, do you always check the lid? I know I do. Just a long held habit. Seems like a lot of tea to spill going over a speed bump right there at McDonald’s place. Reads like it anyway. So how fast was she driving?
I’m only posting a bit of it here. The rest at the link as always. Have fun.
Teen, 17, suffers horrific burns when McDonald’s tea spills on his leg
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 6:07 PM on 02nd March 2010A teenager is considering sueing McDonald’s after being left with horrific burns from a cup of tea when it spilled over his right leg.
Ben Lewis, 17, cannot work, drive, or shower easily due to the burns - which he is worried may scar him for life.
His family is now thinking of taking legal action against the fast food giant.
Ben needed urgent hospital treatment after the lid came off the cup when the car he was in went over a 5mph speed bump as he and his girlfriend left a McDonald’s drive-thru in Newtown, Powys, on Friday.
The car was being driven by his girlfriend, Victoria Bennett, who then drove him straight to her house for a cold shower to calm the wound.
However Ben started screaming in pain so she then took him to Welshpool Hospital where he received treatment for his burns.
His leg is now covered in blisters.
The teenager, who works in his mother’s nightclub, is now unable to drive and cannot even take a shower without wrapping the painful burn in bandages.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 24, 2010
Vehicle stolen but kops can not retrieve it. Why? The curse of the Travelers. Gypsies. RCOB!
Whatever name they go by they are a curse that the world would be well rid of. Wherever they settle, bad times follow. Since the west decided that genocide is a no-no their numbers of course have increased. Their numbers should be eliminated but nobody will do that, so I predict the problem will worsen with nothing constructive being done about this virus.
Time and time again these folks have caused major problems everywhere they go. They are now declared a race and bad things said against them is, yeah. racism. Woo-Fuckin-Hoo. I don’t much care what label the bleeding hearts attach to thoughts like mine. I merely react to the facts alone and the facts are, those ppl are a menace. They are professional thieves, they overrun property that often isn’t theirs, and when it is, they very often do not have permission to build on or tear up areas of green belt. But they do because firstly, they don’t give a damn, and secondly they are often allowed to get away with things the rest of the population wouldn’t dare. But just saying that makes it a ‘racist’ statement. Cool huh? It’s win, win for them every time.
You might note that although they are active in some parts of the USA and we hear about em from time to time, in the USA they do not (as far as I know) pull the same stunts they do over here. Gotta be a reason for that. Ya think?
Police tell car theft victim: ‘We’ve found your van… but it’s too dangerous to get it back from traveller camp’By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
When a market trader was told by police his stolen Mercedes van had been found, he was overjoyed.
But Christopher Sims was amazed when an officer said it had been located in a ‘no-go’ on a notorious travellers caravan site.
A police officer explained they were unable to retrieve his £1,000 vehicle - which had £1,000 worth of goods inside - because it would mean a major operation which would put officers’ lives at risk.
One officer accidentally let slip that the van is on a travellers site, The Willows, at Sandhurst, near Gloucester.
The father-of-three said: ‘She told me it is a very dangerous and volatile place for the police to go.
‘She said they would have to mount a huge operation with armed officers, dogs and helicopters and it would never be authorised by senior officers for the sake of a van worth £1,000 with another £1,000 worth of contents inside it.
‘I think it’s disgusting. It’s one law for them and one for us. I feel so frustrated and angry.’
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Permalink • Tuesday - February 23, 2010
the face of Britain’s criminal system …….. see how it doesn’t work ….
Another great example of the Labour promise.
Tough on crime. Tough on the causes of crime. Uh huh. Maybe the PM should be reading this. BTW ... why hasn’t this worthless creep been made graveyard dead after all this? Surely someone could have accidently run him down with their car. This creepy-crawly is for sure more trouble in the future.
Take a look. 100 convictions? What’s it take to convince authorities that some criminals (most in fact) choose that way of life. And it is always the law abiding taxpayer who has to pay their way. I refuse to believe that euthanasia doesn’t have a very good place in the modern world. IT DOES! And the sooner used the safer and better off society would be. In fact, had this one been hung at age 10 or 11, there would have been a few thousand (count em) a few thousand FEWER crimes caused by this useless bastard. So then, what’s he get now? Read on.
Teenager with more than 100 convictions turned town into ‘UK break-in capital’
By JAMES TOZERMichael Craig has been blamed by police for turning his hometown of Burnley into the burglary capital of Britain
Their town has been burdened with the unfortunate tag of the burglary capital of Britain.
But the residents of Burnley are likely to sleep more soundly after a serial offender responsible for a large chunk of the crimes was locked up yesterday.
Michael Craig has committed 101 break-ins and other offences. Police say the 19-year-old is a key reason for the town’s unwanted title - and could be behind many more unsolved crimes.
Burnley has more burglaries per head of population than any other town or city in the country, with 2,154 in only a year, the Home Office revealed earlier this month.
Craig has regularly been committing crimes since stealing a car when he was just ten.
His record ranges from theft to public order offences as well as shoplifting, breach of an Asbo, affray, criminal damage, attempted robbery and common assault.The latest string of offences began only four weeks after he was freed 12 months early from a two-and-a-half year jail term for what a judge described as a ‘frightening’ campaign of burglaries.
He soon broke into an 88-year-old woman’s home and stole her television as she slept, and later slashed the tyres of a witness after she called the police.
The pensioner, who lived alone, had been badly shaken up, felt vulnerable and had told police it would take her a long time to recover, prosecutor Sarah Statham told Burnley Crown Court.
Craig also broke into a local college three times to steal equipment including overhead projectors.
Finally he was arrested hiding in the roof space of a house and admitted a catalogue of crimes to fund a drug habit.
A police source said: ‘It’s very pleasing to see Craig get locked up but I’m sure it won’t be long before he’s reoffending again when he gets out.
‘The fact is he an absolute menace who has been a blight on the town for years. Even though he had over 100 convictions at the age of 19 it wouldn’t surprise if it was just the tip of the iceberg.
‘When the Home Office burglary figures came out a few people did wonder whether Craig had a hand in it. The figures certainly went down dramatically when we arrested him.’
Craig admitted two charges of burglary, one of criminal damage and asked for 14 further offences to be considered.
This took his total number of convictions to the staggering 101.
The judge, Recorder Andrew Long, told him he had an ‘appalling’ criminal record and jailed him for three years.
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Permalink • schools which make girls wear skirts may be breaking the law under new laws re. umin rights.
The Mad Hattie Littlejohn refers to here is Harriet Harman, also called Harperson. She of total equality for all and even where there is no inequality, she will find it so that she can then make it equal. She is a left wing loony tune and I can’t quite make up my mind who is worse. The former deputy PM, John Prescott or Ms Harperson. She is a wack job people. She ugly too but that isn’t important. One of those white folks born to wealth who want to play Robbin Hood with other people’s money. Wants ta be one of the common folk to show how inclusive she is. Bah. Lyndon does a much better job of describing the pin head. Seeing her name usually sets Lyndon off so I hope he’s out there right now.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN
The Daily Mail
Feb. 23 ‘10
Now mad Hattie’s making skirts illegalConclusive evidence that the world has gone stark, staring mad comes from the Equalities and Human Rights Commission , which has announced that schools which make girls wear skirts may be breaking the law - by discriminating against transsexuals.
You couldn’t make it up. A 68-page report on the rights of transsexuals says ‘requiring pupils to wear gender-specific clothes is potentially unlawful’.It states: ‘Pupils born female with gender dysphoria experienced great discomfort being forced to wear stereotypical girls’ clothes - for example, a skirt.’
This guidance arises out of Harriet Harman’s lunatic, flat earth Equalities Bill, which is due to become law in the autumn.
Local authorities will have to take into account the effects of their policies on minorities.
I’ve no idea how many transsexual pupils there are at your average school. But I wouldn’t have thought all that many.
There was a boy at my school who was rumoured to like dressing up in his mother’s frocks and high-heels, but the headmaster felt no inclination to adapt the uniform accordingly.
Surely any transsexual’s sensitivities could be accommodated by a pair of slacks, without making skirts a criminal offence.
Just imagine the time and money wasted drawing up a 68-page report - that’s right, sixty-eight pages - into the rights of transsexuals. The U.S. Constitution runs to only six pages, and that includes a bill of rights for everyone.
Millions upon millions of pounds are wasted on this kind of institutionalised insanity every year.
Of course, minorities’ rights should be respected but not at the expense of criminalising the normal behaviour of the majority.
If this Bill becomes law, it won’t be long before this ‘guidance’ is tested in court.
This is where a demented obsession with ‘diversity’ becomes a tyranny. We are now ruled by maniacs who think the wearing of skirts should be made illegal.
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Permalink • Saturday - February 20, 2010
Video: Allah, the Netherlands, and the House of Orange
First of all ...
H/T EUROPE NEWS
I meant to post this yesterday, too much going on but better late then never.
This is a very short video, the speaker (Dutch) is very emotional and VERY angry. He’s had enough of immigration and his country sucking up to muslims.
The screen crawl at the very start is too fast but of special interest is the one at the very end. Some of you who have followed this from the past will be familiar with his name.
A video about how the Dutch Government betrayed the people of the Netherlands, and destroyed the separation of church and state. Pim Fortuyn expresses his frustration about how political correctness is destroying Holland with Islam. Very good little video.
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Permalink • Thursday - February 18, 2010
kind of idle
Not much posting from me the past few days. Nothing much is striking my interest. I’m once again both fed up and bored silly with politics: same old same old, and it’s never going to change.
The Mouse Count is now at 2. And it took me making exactly two trips down there in the morning for them to realize it was in their best interest ($$) to toss the dead mice themselves. Or at least check the traps and call me for a disposal if necessary. Both mice caught in the same trap in the same spot, half way up the steel shelving unit that the employees keep their snack food and coffee supplies on. Beats me how the mice get there to get caught in that one trap, as I’ve got traps on the floor all around and on each lower shelf as well. It could be that they come down from the suspended ceiling. Which means the trap that catches them is the first one in line. Whatever.
I’ve been learning a bit about locomotives and “tractive effort”. Tractive effort is the metric used to express the starting and pulling power of a locomotive. While steam engines from days gone by produced their power from high pressure steam acting on a big piston that moved large and intricate levers, modern diesel locomotives use motors. The engine is only there to run a generator, and electricity runs a motor that turns the wheels that pull the train. It’s quite amazing just how much more powerful a solution this is than the old way. For example, the brand new steam locomotive (did you know there was such a thing?) called the Tornado, built in the UK to modern specifications for £3million, has a tractive effort of 2700 metric horsepower, or 2000 KW, which is about 38,000 lb/ft of torque.
This steam locomotive is just a slightly improved version of a standard choo-choo from back in the day. It is not a giant engine, or even a very large one, but it is representative of a size of engine that was very common at the time. It is classified as a “4-6-2” because it has 4 wheels under the boiler, 6 driving wheels nearly 7 feet in diameter, and 2 wheels under the firebox in the back. The very largest, and rarest, articulated steam engines (double sized boilers, 2 sets of driving wheels, and a hinge in the middle), such as the 2-8-8-2 could manage 152,000 lb/ft; these monsters were essentially 2 very large locomotives welded together. They could haul a lot of freight, but not always very fast. The very largest articulated engine ever built, a 2-8-8-8-4 Triplex could produce perhaps 199,000 lb/ft of tractive effort, but it could barely go 5 mph. A typical large American steam engine could produce 70,000-90,000 lb/ft.
These are big numbers. A whole lot of power. Enough to pull a train. Enough to pull a string of passenger cars when the electric trains freeze up in England due to Global Warming. And while the steam engines had a certain charm, a powerful magnificence you could understand just by looking at, they pale in comparison to a modern diesel “electro-motive” engine. The latest General Electric Evolution turbo-diesel locomotive uses a 12 cylinder engine to produce 4400 horsepower which turns the generators that run the AC motors to both sets of 6 drive wheels, and provides 166,000 lb/ft of continuous tractive effort and up to 198,000 lb/ft of starting tractive effort. Which makes today’s standard diesel locomotive just as powerful as the most potent steam behemoths of ages past, with far less maintenance, much higher speed, and orders of magnitude less pollution. It’s simply a better way. Night and day better. Oh, and that Evolution 12 cylinder engine not only makes as much power as the older 16 cylinder engine, it does it on less fuel and makes fewer emissions as well. And it’s quieter too. So it’s a better, better way.
For more on train physics, see this link.
So what can you do with engines like these? How about pull a line of freight cars 3 1/2 miles long? One super train, 9 engines I think, but it hauls the same load as 600 tractor-trailer trucks. One engineer at the controls. Possibly a fireman on board. One or two guys. In charge of 300 freight cars and 9 engines. 8 of those engines are run by remote control. Economical in the extreme!
Yes, containerized shipping has come to the railroads too. Those odd looking freight cars in the video are called intermodal double stack wells. “Intermodal” because they carry trucks on the train. Two shipping modes together. But they could just as easily be called “internodal”, because each “car” is actually several cars in one. Thus “nodes”. Each sub-car, or node, is a hollow steel frame that can carry two standard shipping containers stacked one on top of the other. The containers sit low in the car, down between the wheels, which keeps the center of gravity low, so they can go around corners faster. Unlike regular boxcars, which have a set of 4 wheels under each end, the intermodal’s wheel sets are shared between the cars or nodes; this cuts the rolling resistance down 40% and provides a smoother ride for the cargo. They are also called “multiple unit articulated double stack cars” since the shared wheel set has a hinge point for each car on it, thus the articulation. But I think “intermodal double stack wells” is just as long-winded a name, and even more train-tech-speak. Any railroad insider would know that those things are both articulated and double stackable. Not trying to confuse anyone even more, but the set of wheels under any train car are called “trucks”. So a tractor on trucks pulls a trail of cars with tractor truck trailers on them, over the tracks. That’s a train today. And the tracks themselves, made of rails and ties, are called a roadbed. The ties, those great baulks of timber that the rails are nailed to,"sleep" in the stony bed of the road, the rocky road, so they are also called “sleepers”. Got it?
Trains have their own vocabulary. Look up “switch frog” and “outside slip”.
The internodal double stack wells come in several sizes and configurations, but mostly they are built as 3 and 5 node units. The only downside to their use is the internodal part: the extended wheelbase of the shared wheel sets makes for a larger turning radius, which limits their use to single run tracks without tight curves, and to double run tracks where the second set of tracks isn’t too close. But they save so much money that my guess is that the old tracks will be moved and modified to allow their use. It’s a better way, and that’s what drives the free market.
All aboooooard!
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Permalink • Monday - February 15, 2010
BRIT TAXPAYERS TAKE ANOTHER BODY BLOW TO THE PURSE. (Caution Lyndon/Chris. DO NOT LOOK)
Single mother-of-six finds £2m mansion on the net… and then gets YOU to pay £7,000 a month rentBy Emily Andrews and Stephen Wright
Feb. 15A single mother-of-six is getting more than £80,000 a year from the taxpayer to live in a £2million mansion in an exclusive London suburb.
Essma Marjam, 34, is given almost £7,000 a month in housing benefits to pay the rent on the five-bedroom villa just yards from Sir Paul McCartney’s house and Lord’s cricket ground.
She also receives an estimated £15,000 a year in other payouts, such as child benefit, to help look after her children, aged from five months to 14.
The four-storey house in Maida Vale has five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a double living room, large fitted kitchen-diner with French doors on to the landscaped garden and a state-of-the art buzzer entry system.
Astonishingly, it is understood Miss Marjam found the house on the internet through a private letting agency, rather than waiting for Westminster council to give her a vacant property on their books.
She then applied to the council for the £1,600-a-week benefit - the maximum amount the council allows.
Miss Marjam said: ‘I moved here at the beginning of the month as I’m entitled to a five-bedroom house.
‘I was in a three-bedroom council house but I needed a bigger place once my new baby came along. So the council agreed to pay the £1,600 a week to a private landlord as they didn’t have any houses big enough.
‘I’m separated from my husband. He’s a solicitor in Derby, but I don’t know if he’s working at the moment. He doesn’t pay anything towards the kids. Things are quite difficult between us.
‘The house is lovely and very big, but I don’t have enough furniture to fill it.’
OH DEAR,OH DEAR. NOT ENOUGH FURNITURE? HUH? DON’T YOU FOLKS SIT ON FLOORS? WHATEVER. NO WORRY DEAR. THE ENGLISH TAXPAYER WILL FILL YOUR NEW HOME WITH ALL THE FURNITURE YOU NEED. JUST ASK. DEMAND. AND BE SURE TO SAY IT’S YOUR HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHT. (oh yeah. hint. if anyone questions your request demand, simply tell em they are being racists. that’ll shut em up)
Taxpayers are also picking up the £6,400-a-month bill to house Nasra Warsame, her seven children and her elderly mother in central London, with Westminster council also providing Mrs Warsame’s husband and their eighth child with a two-bedroom flat nearby.
In total, 16 families are living in million-pound-plus London properties funded by the Local Housing Allowance.
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Permalink • Wednesday - February 10, 2010
Not an emergency, but
Ok, we’re having the Big Snow now. No wind yet, but it’s coming down. It started snowing at some point overnight, but what came down then was very very fine. Now the temperature has dropped, the flakes are big and sticky, and the clouds have unzipped. It’s piling up rapidly.
I was a smart camper and went to the store last night, so we have plenty of everything. Almost. Guess I wasn’t so smart after all.
I just found out that we’re almost out of toilet paper.
D’oh!!
many hours later ...
Ok, problem solved. Went out in the weather, dug out the car, and toodled off to the store. Time to reheat the pork roast and have some dinner. It’s still snowing pretty hard. We’ve got at least 8” at this point, maybe 10”. Either way, that’s more than a foot on the ground. I know, I know, that’s nothing compared to many other areas. But this is New Jersey. Snow usually comes in 3” servings maybe 3 or 4 times a season, and melts away in a couple days.
I think Al Gore is staying at the Marriot Hotel down the road. Fargin’ Bastige.
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HEY THERE BMEWS …. THINK THIS JOKE IS FUNNY?
“A man walked into a Dublin bar and saw a friend sitting with an empty glass.
‘Paddy can I buy you another’, he asked, to which Paddy replied - ‘now what would I be wanting with another empty glass?”
IF YOU THINK IT’S FUNNY AND YOU TELL THAT JOKE TO SOME IRISHMEN HERE ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC .....
Councillor ordered to pay compensation for ‘racist’ jokeA Conservative councillor has been ordered to pay compensation to a union rep after telling a “racist” joke about a dim-witted Irishman.
By Nick Britten
Cllr Ken Bamber, who sits on Medway Council in Kent, was chatting with Brian Kelly, a Unison rep, when he made the joke.
He told Mr Kelly: “A man walked into a Dublin bar and saw a friend sitting with an empty glass. ‘Paddy can I buy you another’, he asked, to which Paddy replied - ‘now what would I be wanting with another empty glass?”
Mr Kelly, who was born in Ireland, said Cllr Barber had used the word “Paddy” offensively and was being “racist with intent”.
He lodged an official complaint and took the matter to an employment tribunal, which referred the case to the conciliation service Acas.
Mr Kelly is believed to have been awarded several thousand pounds compensation, some from the council and some from Cllr Bamber.
Cllr Bamber, 79, said that although the judgement had taken “a long, long time” it had not affected his job.
The councillor, who chairs the business support overview and scrutiny committee and sits on five other committees, said: “I could make a lot of comments about this case, but I can’t I’m afraid.
“The council have now decided to draw a line under the matter and it is finally over and I can get on with my job.”
Speaking previously about the case, Mr Kelly said: “I couldn’t believe my ears - we were in the midst of a racial discrimination hearing.
“If there’s ever a more inappropriate time to start telling racist jokes that would have been it.
“This man was directly responsible for deciding whether the employee in question had a racial discrimination claim and he was telling racist jokes himself.
“I am proud of my Irish heritage and family and I felt deeply offended.”
A spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “This case has taken too long to settle and looks like it will cost a lot of money.
“It distracts staff from doing what they should be doing - providing essential services for people.
“These sorts of matters need to be resolved as quickly as possible and any cost should be borne by the offending party, not the taxpayer.”
I really think the guy who claims he was “offended” is a lying sack of shit!
Could not the joke be interpreted as the Irishman at the bar being clever enough and funny enough to reply he didn’t need another empty glass?
And even if not. So what? How bad and is that joke from a standpoint of racial insult? What if Paddy just happened to be his real name?
Yeah I know, I know. This crap is way outta hand.
The court should have thrown it out.
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