Posted on 05/14/2015 2:03:33 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
***ping***
Indeed
Ah, diversity...
Let’s celebrate!
There could be twenty dead... since a dozen still missing
Yikes
Comparing a train engineer to an airline pilot is ridiculous. How hard is it to “drive” a train?
Obviously difficult enough that this fine piece of humanity could not do it correctly.
Who new when you get on an AMTRAK train, you’re riding the “Diversity Express?”
I’d think you’d expect that the minute you learned Obama appointed the CEO
Well, he’s all lawyered up and not talking, but they said he was going over twice the speed limit at 106 mph into a curve
I don’t know how difficult it is myself, but this guy managed to screw it up
“...a dozen still missing...”
Source?
“Comparing a train engineer to an airline pilot is ridiculous.”
Admittedly, I only skimmed the article due to liberal-nausea syndrome or LNS. But I think the comparison was promoting a stewardess to air line pilot. Meaning this guy was promoted not on merit but because he was the right diversity flavor.
Amtrak is so f-ed up you’re probably better off hopping a freight.
You’ll get there on time, have a safer ride, and the crew will be nicer.
“32 year old kid”?
I don’t know about you, but at 32, I was a responsible married MAN and father. People younger than 32 regularly drive tanks, fighter planes, and other vehicles very responsibly.
"Smart Track" technology had been implemented in other regions (DC to Philly, NYC to Boston), but apparently THEY ran out of money to install that in one of the busiest Philly to NYC tracks.
The thinking is if tight-fisted GOP would have approved any Obama funding request and smart track technology implemented, it doesn't matter WHO they hire as train engineers.
You know, the rest of us Taxpayers are going to pay the bills from the lawsuits of all those victims.
He had been in the job for 4 years and a conductor 4 years before that so this looks to be a case more of reckless, irresponsible and completely inexcusable than outright clueless.
I think I’ll wait for some sort of official report or leak about the black box. He was a white gingered hair tuti fruti so I really really doubt he was filling an affirmative action slot with so many authentically black LGBT’s running about.
I guess so, but since I don’t live where it goes (at least I think) I never had much concern for it except to think “money pit” every time I heard the word “AMTRAK”.
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