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You are correct about the track signals, they’re set up like traffic signals. Also, all of the road locomotives have in-cab signaling that displays the track status by picking up a signal from the track itself. Either way, this guy sould never have been operating a locomotive. He was either hiding his vision problems, outright lied, or someone looked the other way when he recertified to operate a locomotive. Just running a red block (meaning the track is occupied by another train) usually get’s you fired on the spot.

Then maybe ICE should really reconsider where their loyalties lie. Is it with the US? Or the policitical-business complex?

ICE is there to enforce border security, and the feds are actually preventing them from doing there jobs. How messed up is that? It’s completely devoid of logic. Maybe ICE should channel the ghost of Blackjack Pershing. I really don’t think that all of the illegals here will mind I if we invade mexico, and take over a sizable chunk of that country for our own. I’m thinking that the 4 border states, along with the northern mexican states, along with the gulf of mexico, and the baja peninsula. That would make a nice country all by itself.

Boner needs to go. We have laws on the books, and the INS-ICE to deal with immigration. The GOP-DNC and their business interests want an open border and access to a cheap source of illegal revenue. The feds have become the gun runners and drug traffickers for the mexican cartels, and any US official who endorses this “immigration reform” are no better that the lowest pimps, drug dealers, or common thugs and gangsters. When We the People lose faith in our government, it is time to replace our goverment those who will abide by our Constitution.

And Catholic educators criticize muslim US presidents. This must burn the muslim in chief to no end, not being able to do anything against the infidels.

Who ever said that manifest destiny only goes from east to west? Why not south? If you can’t close the border, move it south! Laraza promotes it, so why don’t the border states simply start taking over the northern mexican states, and taking charge of their futures? The entire gulf of mexico belongs to us, along with the baja peninsula and gulf of california, and mexico becomes that much smaller. The spaniards had their chance, and they lost, the mexicans had their chance, and they lost, Now it’s our turn to take charge, and claim that land for our own, by our standards. There’s enough real estate there to form a new nation. Something to think about.

The feds and business interests are working together against the border states to keep the influx of cheap labor and loyal voters flowing north. The only way back to sovereignty is to tell the feds to go pound sand, and take of it yourselves. it’s a tough choice to make, and you will meet much resistance from the current powerbrokers. It all come’s down to a battle of wills.

Has mexico annexed texas yet? Considering that a sizable part of the mexican population currently resides in texas and california, I would have thought that we just give those two states to mexico, and be done with it.

Never been to a gun show, never bought a firearm over the counter, never filled out an ATF form. Nobody knows what I have, or where it came from, and I like to keep the powers to be guessing. I may have nothing, and I’m just blowing smoke up you a$$, or I may have enough to supply a small army. That’s for me to know, and hopefully, for you to never have to find out.

Yep, that’s the way to go. A Mossberg 500 home defense special, with an 18” barrel, loaded with #4 pheasent loads at close range, will make a very nasty mess. Just racking a round into the chamber has a unique sound, that will make most would-be home invaders sh!t their pants.

Behold! Witness the new face of western socialism! Maybe the 8 of us will get it right this time!

If you are one of the professionally offended, then paint a bulls eye on your forehead now, because I will make it my life's goal to personally break you down and make you cry.

The english are doomed. Their first mistake was letting the muslims in. The second was disarming the english people. Now the the muslims can kill the infidel english with impunity, and the english have no choice but to die, or be imprisoned by their own government for defending themselve against the invading muslim hoards, which means they’ll be killed in prison by the muslim gangs. You see where this is going? Right?

I live in oregon (unfortunately). And it’s the same thing here. If you’re a native born citizen, legal immigrant, or naturalized citizen, you have to jump through hoops just to get a drivers license. If you’re an illegal from mexico, you get a free pass, a CDL, and a shitload of government benefits, a lifetime DNC membership card, all just by being born in mexico and willing to break a few laws for your new cartel and agcorp employers.

And all of the asshats west of the cascades wonder why we keep trying to block all of the mountain passes. Go figure.

No it won't, all of the doctors will be replaced with low cost immigrants through the upcoming amnesty program. Better brush up on your foreign languages if you want to understand what your doctor tells you, and hope your pharmacist gets it right.

The muslims are really pushing their luck. Their luck is to about to run out. They keep this up, and they’ll have another Crusade to deal with. It’s us vs. them, which one do you want to win?

It’s all about control. Control the food, control the fuel, and you have the people under your thumb. Create a one time crop, and you have to go to the government sponsored seed supplier hat in hand for a few kernels of seed corn. When the USDA and FDA show up at your doorstep, and point a gun in your face asking for samples of what you’re growing in your home garden, hoping to find some “cross contamination” from there product, which may result in you receiving a jail sentence and sued into oblivion by Monsanto, will you realize the game that is afoot. This has absolutely nothing to do with creating a better crop, and everything to do with taking control of everyting that you are allowed to grow. The countries I listed have used this to maximum advantage as a means of control. Don’t think for a second that it couldn’t here in th US.

If you’re part of the middle class, you are shit out of luck. Your employer, supplier, business partner, financier, customer, and your government will make sure that you and your employees will be replaced with plenty of cheap, compliant, illegal labor, and there’s nothing you can do about it, because illegals have become the new protected class. Welcome to the new plantation. Don’t bother complaining to your elected representative, because they will not listen to you, and do not care, because they were bought and paid for a long time ago by interests who put profit above country.

Monsanto will single-handedly destroy agriculture in North America, and will profit handsomely while doing it. And they will have the gratitude of the US government and their vested interests for doing so. See zimbabwe, ethiopia, south africa, soviet era russia, china, and every other despot run third world shithole as an example.

Those who control the food, control the country. Famine is a powerful weapon.

Until they side up with the gang of eight on illegal immigration, in which case it would be “inevitable” that they sell out, or are intimidated into compliance by their gop party masters.

And I guess the only way to fix it by your standards jeb, is to import more illegals? Sorry jeb, california and texas already employ that strategy, so try again.

Illegal immigration is the only issue that both parties can agree upon, as in: we need a nonstop flow of cheap, easily exploitable labor, and we need to keep blowing smoke up the collective asses of working Americans until they get replaced by our new mexican slaves, and it’s too late to do anything about it. Keep it up politicians, exploiters, and illegal employers, and you will have to pay the price that is far worse than than any gains you have made working illegals for profit at OUR expense.

This is a road that democrats, republicans, and unfortunately conservatives, don’t want to go down. Thare will be a backlash.

Will obama and co. use holder for cannon fodder? Or, will obama run interference for holder because holder knows too much, and would roll over on obama in a second to save his own ass? These clowns think that they are safe. They are safe, for now, and that will only get them so far, until the SHTF.

Well DUH! Leftist socialists aren’t exactly known for honoring or preserving the rights of individuals. Idiots voted for these Constantine wanna-be’s, so they can’t complain when they get just exactly what they asked for.

I think that the plot of this movie was to provoke a specific response, to sort of ferret out would be vigilante types. I'm sure that the CIA and NSA types will be poring over credit card records of movie-goers to see just who exactly were attracted to watch just such a movie and plot.

Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get you!

You are much more likely to die at the hands of a government official, than you are of dying by accident or natural causes.

The soviets could only dream of the level of control that the USfedgovmonster has over its subjects, and yet, the sheep are perfectly willing to lead to slaughter for for free government handouts and influence.

The obama administration is trying to deflect culpability by pinning this on some outlying administrative unit. The orders came from the top, and these people know it, and they don’t want to therown to the wolves to cover up where the orders came from. The orders either came from the DNC, or they came from the CIC. Keep peeling back the layers, and do not relent.

Maybe he’ll have a heart attack, and spare us the trouble.

Prosecute public officials, up to and including a firing squad, for violating our Constitutional rights!!!!. A few dead potential tyrants later, and the potential tyrants may learn the error of their ways. If not, there’s more armed patriots than there are tyrants. If they want to go down that road, we can go down that road, and that road will only lead to pain, suffering, and ruin.

You don’t need a degree to persue your goals, but the meritocracy and their HR linebackers and corporate lawyers will try to put a stop to that post-haste. All the more reason to build the better mousetrap in your garage or basement.

This would leave Diablo Canyon as the only nuke plant left in California. I guess California is going to have to get used to paying outrageous prices for electricity, and live with rationing of power and rolling blackouts. I live ten miles away from a hydroelectric dam, and my electric bill is dirt cheap, and I will encourage the locals to make sure it stays that way by supporting the local utility.

Doing more with less is the name of the game. If the indigenous population won’t do it for the right price, just import third world labor from your third world neighbor, and viola! an instant increase in profits. and if they’re undocumented, it’s even better, because now you can get the feds to subsidize your new found slave labor force, have the taxpayers forced to fund it, and have the law enforcement run interference for your slaves. this isn’t just pessimism, THIS IS FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS. What goes around, comes around, and it won’t be pretty when it happens.

The obama administration has lost all credibility, and they could care less what you think, because they now hold all of the power of our government in their hands, and they know it. Conservatives lay down and die, refuse to put up a fight, and rest on their morals while the communists take over. If you’re going to shoot, shoot, don’t talk. You cannot reason with your enemy, you will end up dead for your efforts if you try. It boils down to us vs. them, who do you want to win? This is a battle on our own soil, for all of the marbles.

Yeah, that’s cold, about as bad as Michigan in the winter. Fuel cells generate heat as a byproduct of the reaction, and it can be used to warm us folks from much colder climates. The idea is to wring as much energy out of a pound of fuel as possible. Chemistry dictates just how much energy we can get from pound of fuel. Following this path will take us to energy independence.

From a chemical-electrical energy standpoint, this is a big leap in energy storage technology. Burning fuel in an internal combustion engine is horribly inefficient, wasting roughly 2/3 of the energy as exhaust heat and cooling system losses. For every gallon of gas you buy, 2/3 of that gallon literally gets wasted as useless low grade heat that does not propel your vehicle forward. Batteries are nice, but they just store energy, like fuel. A gallon of gas has the same amount of energy as all of the batteries in a chevy volt. The name of the game is energy density. The brass ring to grab for is to be able to store as much energy as it would take to move you the equivalent distance as a tank of gas, and do it more efficiently than just burning fuel. Fuel cells and batteries would work way better than gas, unless someone comes up with a fuel cell that uses hydrocarbons directly. If that were the case, then a 1000 miles on a tank of fuel for your Tahoe would be a piece of cake.

Fuel, oxidizer (nitrate fertilizer), and an ignition source. We have the latter two in place, but where did the first (the fuel) come from? I think this is just a very tragic industrial accident. It’s one of the risks involved when manufacturing powerful nitrogen based fertilizers. The power to grow things also has the power to destroy, if things go wrong. Fortunately, accidents are very rare, and are a testament to our ingenuity and prowess.

Women wanted to be independent, and wanted preferential treatment. Well guess what? They got it! Women have absolutely no room to complain now for any of the decisions they have made, because ALL of the decisions they made, were made by themselves. Forsake and shun men, and no women has any room to complain when men shun women.

It’s part of a filter when searching for prosective employees. If your previous salary is above or below a specific range, your application is automatically discarded. Regardless of what a prosective employer tells you, they want to get you for as cheap as possible, within the accepted window of pay for that particular industry standard. The current job market is an employer’s market, and they can cherry pick employees for the best (lowest) wages for the work required. Any prosective employer who tells you otherwise, is lying through their teeth. The new business paradigm is to treat labor as a commodity, to be used and disposed of as required. If they don’t, then they will be crushed by their competition.

We have a few choices. Either:

1. Militarize the US-Mexico border, which we know will never happen.

2. Enforce our existing immigration laws as pertaining to mexico, which we know will never happen.

3. Declare open season on all illegals crossing the border, which will be put down by the feds, because they get paid for moving mexican slaves north.

4. Wield the power of government to confound any attempts to stymie the flow of cheap exploitable labor to satisfy our lobbyist sugardaddies.

5. The people get totally pissed off at the feds, had enough of their looting and plundering, and fascist tendencies, and throw a serious beating to the illegals, their employers and enablers, the government lackeys turning a blind eye, and it just becomes a free for all sheer mayhem knock down drag out rebellion of the like’s the world has never had the displeasure to witness.

6. May the US, and the world never have to witness #5, because noboby will be safe if it comes down to that.

We have two choices. Either:

1. Militarize the US-Mexico border, which we know will never happen.

2. Enforce our existing immigration laws as pertaining to mexico, which we know will never happen.

3. Declare open seaon on all illegals crossing the border, which will be put down by the feds, because they get paid for moving mexican slaves north.

4. Weild the power of government to confound any attempts to stymie the flow of cheap exploitable labor to satisfy our lobbyist sugardaddies.

5. The people get totally pissed off at the feds, had enough of their looting and plundering, and fascist tendencies, and throw a serious beating to the illegals, their employers and enablers, the government lackeys turning a blind eye, and it just becomes a free for all sheer mayhem knock down drag out rebellion of the like’s the world has never had the displeasure to witness.

6. May the US, and the world never have to witness #5, because noboby will be safe if it comes down to that.

Obamanation hasn’t brought our nation to tears, he has brought it to the brink of totalitarianism, and the people who see it are calling him out on it. The second amendment protects all of the others, because when OUR government turns on us, they need to be reminded as to who is exactly in charge, and the laws they have to abide by. Ignore the Constitution at your own peril!

It’s just too bad that the leadership within the scouts has devolved into this mess. Maybe instead of punishing the kids by disbanding and defunding the troops, maybe we should work to throw out the malevolent deviant homosexual perverts in the leadership positions within the oranization. Somebody made these decisions, against everything the scouts stand for, they need to be singled out, and told in no certain terms that they have no future in the scouts, and they either leave, or get thrown out. Oh, and I would like to see an axe grinding badge added.

The big investors are not oblivious to what is happening, they are directly involved with the systematic looting of any value our domestic economy has available, and know full well what the final results will be. When you see a lot of big name investors suddenly dumping their US based assets, and relocating to more tropical, and not US jurisdiction locales, you will soon see the SHTF, and the market collapse. The is the point when the US economy has been bled for all its worth.

I stopped watching NFL football when it was apparent they were heading in the same direction as the WWF, all show and drama.

Of course it would, because food and fuel prices are taking an ever larger bite out of my paycheck, and the pols and their backers are really hoping you don’t notice.

Money is just a means to an end for these people. All it means to them is a method of control. Control the money, control the people, control the means of production, and you control the country. Fascism/socialism 101. Just remember, it’s all about control, that is where the power is at. This has happened over and over again throughout history, and we are only the current players in this never-ending drama. So it comes down to us vs. them, which side do you want to win? Socialism? or individualism?

Bad decision all around. The feds are issuing an unofficial ultimatum to all companies and corporations: give us all of the information you have available on all Americans, or we WILL destroy you by crushing you under audits and regulations.

The power to tax is the power to destroy, and the socialist regime currently installed isn’t going to willingly give up that kind of weapon. And don’t kid yourselves, the IRS is being used as a weapon to punish dissent, and they know it, and they’re perfectly okay with that fact, AND, they know that there is nothing you can do about it. No politician or government agent would ever give up that kind of power once they’ve been drawn in and corrupted.

It makes one wonder when the alphabet soup agencies are just going to drop all pretenses, and just go full-tilt fascist warlord on all of their percieved opposition. When we the people lose faith in the government’s ability to abide by the rule of law, all bets are off.

Profiling works, political correctness does not. Call ‘em as you see ‘em, and trust your instincts.

Welcome to the North American banana republic. Be careful what you ask for.