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Senate Preparing to Revive the Delta Queen
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| Mar 31, 2017
| Niels Lesniewski
Posted on 04/01/2017 6:10:01 AM PDT by iowamark
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:10:01 AM PDT
by
iowamark
To: iowamark
WTF? Why does the goddamned Senate have to be involved in this?
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:13:17 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: iowamark
Let's hope they get the boiler problem fixed.
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:21:02 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
To: iowamark
Oh, I thought it was someone who .... never mind.
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:29:00 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Believe In The Law Until It Interferes With Justice)
To: iowamark
I put N6 fuel on the Queen back in my St. Paul days.
This is truly an antique.
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:30:32 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: onedoug
WTF? Why does the goddamned Senate have to be involved in this?It's not a question of federal money or subsidies. It's a regulatory issue. The Delta Queen was regulated out of service. It needs to be grandfathered.
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:32:26 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: onedoug
One of the reasons for the law for which they are trying to get a federal exemption from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRcTij_ZpFc
There are a long list of other wooden ships that burned with large loss of life including Yarmoth Castle, and Morro Castle.
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:32:42 AM PDT
by
Fraxinus
(My opinion, worth what you paid.)
To: onedoug
“Why does the gd senate have to be involved?”
Because the tentacles of government have wrapped around everything we use. I really like going to the john and knowing there’s some federal bureaucrat sitting next to me to ensure I’m flushing with a Washington mandated tank. Mr Trump, make my crapper great again.
To: iowamark
The last time I saw the DQ at a lock on her way down the Upper Mississippi was not long before her exemption was pulled thanks to James Oberstar. She appeared a bit tired at the time, but she also looked like a riverboat, not a behemoth cartoon caricature of one. If she finally gets a reprieve and eventually goes back on the river, I think I will add a trip on her to my bucket list.
Mr. niteowl77
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:38:56 AM PDT
by
niteowl77
To: niteowl77
I am wondering if there was not a union issue involved.
When the Delta Queen employed a union crew getting the waiver
was never a problem. If my fading memory is correct, a new company purchased the Queen and took the crew non-union.
At that point all kinds of safety issues were raised and the waiver was pulled.
To: iowamark
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posted on
04/01/2017 6:58:31 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: iowamark
I like the Delta Queen. Sell it to the highest bidder. Government will just...mess it up.
5.56mm
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posted on
04/01/2017 7:02:48 AM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: hardspunned
Mr Trump, make my crapper great again.You said it.
Post of the day, AFAIC.
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posted on
04/01/2017 7:05:48 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: Fraxinus
Nobody get forced to ride the delta queen. If something goes wrong, everyone there knows there is a little more risk than a modern ship.
Let people be adults and choose. I thought “choice” was the holy grail today.
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posted on
04/01/2017 7:13:28 AM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
To: iowamark
I’m humming a few bars of “Proud Mary”.
To: iowamark
I had no idea it was an actual steamboat. After reading Life On The Mississippi and the death of Twain’s brother, I won’t be booking. Still happy it’ll be plying the river again.
To: iowamark
They let hundreds of families live in huge, three-story wooden apartment buildings, but they won’t let people overnight in a wooden ship?
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posted on
04/01/2017 7:46:15 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
To: Maine Mariner
He claimed no labor union influence in his committee testimony, but Jim Oberstar did suddenly change his tune, and a lot of people - including some of his supporters - believed he did so due to union pressure; that he did an abrupt about face is irrefutable, as is the fatuous theatricality of comparing the DQ's potential flammability to the boiler explosion on the
Sultana in 1865.
Mr. niteowl77
To: onedoug
They’re just rearranging the deck chairs Doug.
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posted on
04/01/2017 8:09:44 AM PDT
by
onona
(Keeping the faith will be our new directive for the republic !)
To: iowamark
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posted on
04/01/2017 8:30:40 AM PDT
by
nralife
(Tell Sen. John Cornyn we DO in fact want a real wall! 202-224-2934)
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