A digital diversion
Many more Phoebe Snow jingles can be found here
on 02/13/2010 at 07:56 PM
Peiper has some ancient canals nearby, also he is not too far from the Bluebell and Watercress lines, I love old railways, here in Canada there is the odd old line bed and once I saw a flight of old locks overgrown on a hillside, so sad and there is nothing on google at all (history not maps). A while back I was given a book on transport in the USA, it went from the Eire canal to the late 1990s, the birth of motels, motor camps, and Phoebe Snow, great, sadly one of many left in the UK. The link I liked, not much new but so well and simply put, following this spat about the climate fraud has caused me to start learning academic stuff again, gets hard after 30 years.
Posted by Chris Edwards
02/14/2010 at 12:04 AM
great post!..............thanx. wish you had time to do more.......good job! ®
I really like this post - except this - ‘I don’t. Nor do most Americans’. Our Town has a series of books (ever expanding) Such as German Cincinnati, plus most of the 7 (or more) Hills (suburbs to all you other places). And of course our bastard stepchildren - Newport and Covington.
Great little tidbits plus the pictures are awesome - that all the churches downtown were built by Germans and that Old St. Mary’s (Roman Catholic - I go with the youngest daughter as they have a Latin & a German Mass) - used to bless the first keg of Hudepohl beer. Online they have the Greater Cincinnati Memory Project where I found the Hospital I was born in (no longer a hospital - Roe.vWade killed it in 1973).
The train stuff also takes me back - We used to board the train in Chicago to go to Whitefish Montana in the summer (actually probably only about 4 times before the dreaded by station wagon trips began) - the Great Northern Railroad - wonderful memories of sleeper rooms and of course the observation car - and 2 to 4 (depending on how many cousins were making the trip) children running wild through the train for a couple of days.
Yes, drilling the minuscule amount of ANWAR (there is a map online which shows how incrediblely small the drill site is) from people who know this business and really aren’t into the massive financial loss that spills and environmental damage would cost - which would have the 2nd benefit of financially increasing the lives and productivity of Americans rather than foreigners (wouldn’t that be a big benefit right now) and of course the final benefit of allowing America to become more and more energy independent.
But of course I do not believe that is a goal ever at all - or this would never have become what it is. A scam for more tax dollars - Just vote NO on cap & trade and of course Obamacare - neither of which is about AT ALL what they claim - just another way to TAX Americans and take over even more control and hand it to Dear Leader.
Wardmama, history is where you find it. For some it’s in books, for others it’s in their backyards. But so many of us are unaware of so much of it. “Westward Ho!”, the growth of the early US, the birth of the Industrial Revolution and the modern world, was always one of my favorite topics. These days it’s probably taught as if it’s some kind of primal sin against Mother Earth, but I learned it as a period of glory. I know there are plenty of others who share that love, but it’s been my experience that most people are oblivious to it. They were bored silly by “just dates, battles, and old dead white guys” in school, and never realized that each of those was a mere brushstroke on an enormous masterpiece.
I’m a big old radio show collector… for years The Shadow was sponsored by “Blue Coal - America’s Finest Anthracite”. Apparently, they dyed it blue to distinguish it from lesser brands of carbon.
OldCat;
CO2, according to the Man-made Global warm-mongers is the main greenhouse gas which is supposed, under their fallacious scenario, to be the main cause of global warming. (I not dignify this with the title Climate Change, which is what they decided to use when it became obvious even to climate ‘scientists’ that the planet was no longer warming, and they needed another term in order to hang on to their research grants and the adulation of fools). Not the sun, not natural change which has occurred over billions of years, NO, only man-caused greenhouse effects. So, in the minds of most, especially after a couple decades of bullshit propaganda on the subject, there is not really much of a difference, is there?
Drew, thanks for this great post. I live in Clearfield County, PA. My home is still heated, and my electricity generated, with bituminous coal, although anthracite is making inroads, with its cleaner burn and better heat.
When I was kid, almost all homes in this area were heated with coal, and the city road crews would come by and take the buckets of ashes left for them to use when the roads were icy.
We should still be heating with coal, and let the Arabs drink their oil and eat sand.
The odd thing is that CO2 levels seem to lag behind the estimated global temperature by 800 years or so. So if anything, global warming causes CO2 levels to rise. Which makes sense, because it takes a while to heat up the oceans, which release dissolved CO2 as the temp rises.
Map solar activity against temperature and you get a much better match.
Right on target Jim. Raising the temp a little makes plants more active, which increases the rate of the carbon cycle. In the short term, it means more food for everyone, since the plants are growing faster. Eventually that would be overpowered by increased evaporation at sea, and the release of CO2 as that happens.
Chris’s link really is a good read. Puts it all in simple language. Makes you wonder how the BS got through in the first place. Oh, right. Science is boring, like history. So let’s not study it. Suckas!
In England, before northsea gas was found they heated coal to give off gas (called coal or town gas) and the cooked coal was used for heating, called coke, it gave off very little smoke and was sold as “smokeless” fuel when clean air acts stopped the use of bitum ous coal, the process had many by products, one was creosote, a great wood preserver not the pale immitation you get these days, sometimes progress seems to go backwards! we all need to push those in power to keep the ball rolling, I keep emailing the PM here in canada every week or so, probably worth emailing your local political rep to keep the pressure up and support the likes of WUWT and EUReferendum for the sterling work they are doing on our behalf.
For the English out there, did you know that that maniac scot Brown who is destroying England majored in political history at uni????????? jees some people have no memory recall at all.Posted by Chris Edwards
02/14/2010 at 11:21 PM
Hereb is another fine link to read : go the examiner dot com and use this link /x-32936-Seminole-County-Environmental-News-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Former-NASA-scientist-defends-theory-refuting-global-warming-doctrine
for some reason this link came up as blacklisted?
Despite its long title it is farly short and his answers are amusingly dry!Posted by Chris Edwards
02/14/2010 at 11:29 PM
I liked that link - even someone without real science knowledge could understand what he was saying and how he got there. It’s all about the benjamins - sad, another great profession made ridiculous by greed.
I know what you are saying Drew about history - but I guess I was blessed - my Dad had such a respect for the opportunities here in America - and education - that he just filled us with that respect for where he came from (described the German town his great-grandfather came from perfectly without he nor his father nor grand father ever been there) and where he was. He traveled a lot during his time in the Navy in WWII - and saw the beauty of so many areas of America that he wanted us to see them too. Which is why we traveled during the summer. Of course getting away from all the patients who called him at home, was a benefit too.
Because I was ‘bed-ridden’ so much growing up - he cultivated another love of his - books - so I got the best of two worlds of education - actually seeing and experiencing it and the joy of reading (he also cultivated the other loves of mine - animals (most especially horses) and football). He was highly educated (even got an Honorary Degree - Doctor of Humanity) - studied at Boston Mass Gen and John Hopkins - but even at their height (his Dad, Uncle and Brother were also Doctors) they were winning prizes in the local fairs for their produce - winning prizes with their horses - and hunting. He never lost the spirit of what brought his great, great grandfather (Methodist Minister John) here to America in the early to mid 1800s.
And I think that more than anything else is what has gone awry in America and is distorted today - the spirit to do whatever it takes to be better than you were and more importantly to help your children be better than you are. Now it’s what you can get with the least amount of effort.
Jim S ..... Another fan of olde radio as well. Grew up with it. Brits still have some radio worth listening to, like “Just a Minute” which is the very best radio ever,ever. But I sure do miss the old stuff I used to hear.
I once had a HUGE collection and when I wanted something entertaining I would simply thread a reel (before I got cassettes) and listen to Inner Sanctum, Suspense , The Shadow or any one or two of a hundred others. I once produced a four hour special for the late Al Collins at KFI, L.A., The Golden Years of Radio. What memories. KFI still has (or it did) the old stage and theater with the sponsor’s booth above the stage.Chris ... the Watercress line closed but was reopened at Alsford because some volunteers bought some of the line and an old train. I am not clear on all the details, it’s only a few miles of line as I understand it. Alsford - Alton? but don’t know where after that.
Alsford not too far but we don’t get there much. We used to till the wife’s arthritis started to get bothersome. I don’t drive here but there is a bus from Winchester.
Don’t know anything about the Bluebell line.Kudos Drew ... Awesome post and much history. Love the photos of course.
Sometimes I hate progress. But that old world is best enjoyed and appreciated in retrospect, isn’t it?peiper: cool… I run into radio fans in some off the wall places sometimes… Met a guy in an Amiga (computer) irc chat who’s dad was producer on a radio kiddie western. Bobbie Benson, I think it was.
to switch rails here… back when I was a student at Michigan State, I used to walk past an old steam locomotive donated to the university and parked on a siding next to the engineering building. The MSU railroad club was always trying to restore it, but it was a job for the pros. They ended up donating it to a museum in Corunna which finished the restoration and put it back into operation as a tourist attraction. This monster was the model for the animated movie Polar Express as well as the “voice”, I’m told.
Jim ... can you check that link for me? I’m getting “Server Not Found” message.
PS: Is that a Husky?Hmm… the link worked for me, even from this page. Try this one:
http://www.michigansteamtrain.com/
to the main page, then click on the “our collections” tab in the banner.Yes, that’s a Husky… it’s sort of an old-radio avatar.. I found an illustration in a magazine with a man & his dog drinking at a bar. It made me wonder what Sgt. Preston and King did on their day off. :-D
Here’s the full size original:Jim,
MANY thanks for that Dogbar link. Gonna put a frame on that and hang it. That has to be classic or maybe it’s just us. I say us coz the wife went gaga over it too.Question tho. We thought Husky have blue eyes only. ?? Malamutes have brown eyes and I think blue as well.
Oh boy. Sgt. Preston of the Yukon. “On King, on you huskies.” Sure takes me back a ways.
peiper,
Now that I think of it, that picture came from an old issue of Playboy. (Some folk *do* read the articles ) Glad you and the wife enjoyed it.
You might be right on the eyes… I think they can have blue eyes, but I’m not sure if it’s required. One of my college pals had a Husky with one of each… King could have been either a Husky or a Malamute… on the radio show I’ve heard Preston say “On you Malamutes”. At least once, in response to a curious newbie, he called King a Malamute. But I guess the Huskies have better PR.
Jim, whatever their eye color, both those breeds are awesomely beautiful. I’ve read they’re pretty hard to train especially the Malamute, and are also world class diggers.
Re.Preston. Gee. I never heard mush you malamutes. Always huskies. Was what you heard a one off thing? If you say it out loud, it flows better with the H in Huskies.
That show had me glued to the radio speaker. Along with many others.
If you ever get a chance, maybe Halloween, look up an old Suspense program titled,
“The House In Cypress Canyon.” Leave the lights on. Another creeper as in chills is,
“The Thing On The Forble Board” Halloween again.
Damn those days were good for radio.peiper, I’ve heard that too… also, since they’re bred to fend for themselves somewhat, they have a hunting instinct that could lead to a bloody gift on the stoop.
on Preston, I can’t say I’ve heard it very often, and it seemed to be mostly in the earlier shows. It’s been a while since I listened to those… I agree Huskies sounds better, maybe that’s why they dropped it.
I’ve got both of those episodes… I’ll have to add them to the playlist. I’m working on The Lone Ranger, Fibber McGee & Molly, and Bold Venture at the moment.
02/15/2010 at 08:46 AM
