IndySon wrote: Gumby4 wrote:Good evening all!Just got home. I don't know which organization I despise the most: al-Qaida or the TSA. One is evil the other incompetent. Wish I could go into more detail. As least somebody smacked some sense into the TSA this morning. Gumby hit the nail on the head...but instead of doing anything about it (the stupidity part), we accept it to a large extent as necessary for security. It is not. Words have been put into frequent media use to make common sense a negative attribute. If terrorists are trying put explosives on aircraft, then instead of TSA using limited resources searching every single person and their carry on bags for their potential explosives, and causing such tremendous waste in innocent products going to a landfill, why wouldn't the TSA concentrate more on identifying the terrorists and eliminating them from the plane? Does the word "profiling" come across as negative? Sure it does, because it's usually tied to the word "racial" and that's just a trigger that nobody wants to touch with a twenty foot pole. But the fact of the matter is, terrorists for the most part fit a profile. Innocent people who fit this profile can be screened with dignity and allowed to proceed with minimum changes. Procedures can be established that will allow security to focus on the most probable suspects. Too much politics. Too much political correctness. Not enough common sense. No matter what you do, it cannot be set in stone, and the procedures must be constantly changing to prohibit the bad guys from circumventing security. There is no silver bullet. But TSA can exercise more common sense in this instance, stop hassling low-probability and innocent people (the great majority), and focus on identifying the bad guys and their tactics. What we do today in US society is called "shotgunning". We shoot into the crowd to get the few bad guys...and everyone is wounded in the process. We do it every day when we create laws and rules meant to stop poor behavior or performance by the few, rules that by design target the innnocent many...instead of confronting the individual who is causing the problem. We have evolved into a non-confrontational society. Does the almost-a-word "wussie" sound familiar? Bad people prey on wussies.
Gumby4 wrote:Good evening all!Just got home. I don't know which organization I despise the most: al-Qaida or the TSA. One is evil the other incompetent. Wish I could go into more detail. As least somebody smacked some sense into the TSA this morning.
Gumby hit the nail on the head...but instead of doing anything about it (the stupidity part), we accept it to a large extent as necessary for security. It is not.
Words have been put into frequent media use to make common sense a negative attribute. If terrorists are trying put explosives on aircraft, then instead of TSA using limited resources searching every single person and their carry on bags for their potential explosives, and causing such tremendous waste in innocent products going to a landfill, why wouldn't the TSA concentrate more on identifying the terrorists and eliminating them from the plane?
Does the word "profiling" come across as negative? Sure it does, because it's usually tied to the word "racial" and that's just a trigger that nobody wants to touch with a twenty foot pole.
But the fact of the matter is, terrorists for the most part fit a profile. Innocent people who fit this profile can be screened with dignity and allowed to proceed with minimum changes. Procedures can be established that will allow security to focus on the most probable suspects.
Too much politics. Too much political correctness. Not enough common sense.
No matter what you do, it cannot be set in stone, and the procedures must be constantly changing to prohibit the bad guys from circumventing security.
There is no silver bullet. But TSA can exercise more common sense in this instance, stop hassling low-probability and innocent people (the great majority), and focus on identifying the bad guys and their tactics.
What we do today in US society is called "shotgunning". We shoot into the crowd to get the few bad guys...and everyone is wounded in the process. We do it every day when we create laws and rules meant to stop poor behavior or performance by the few, rules that by design target the innnocent many...instead of confronting the individual who is causing the problem.
We have evolved into a non-confrontational society. Does the almost-a-word "wussie" sound familiar?
Bad people prey on wussies.
Morning folks. Coffee and a CHEAP donut please. Yesterdays bill was outrageous.
I do my political ranting and raving on: http://www.ourworldasweseeit.net
If you decid to go there, PM me so I can let DD-2 know that you're joining.
Hey guys,
Not much new from me today, although I have made a bit of progress on the module, getting it ready for the next show. I've been touching up a little minor scenery damage from transporting the thing, as well as finishing the scenery around a building I scratchbuild for the module. It's all slowly falling together. If all goes as planned I should have pictures before the end of the weekend to post.
See ya around,
Noah
HEdward wrote:Morning folks. Coffee and a CHEAP donut please. Yesterdays bill was outrageous. I do my political ranting and raving on: http://www.ourworldasweseeit.net If you decid to go there, PM me so I can let DD-2 know that you're joining.
I don't mind talking politics, but that's why there are a thousand politics forums out there.
I live half the week in NJ and half in PA. I want to see them justify strip searching Lars Johanssen while Muhammit barely gets his carry-on glanced at. If the terrorists were brown haired, blue eyed 48 year old men, I'd expect to be anal probed even if just picking someone up at the airport. Then the brits held back the info on arrests until they had most of the psychos. Seems that even so, the Led Namont types are screaming that it was all a Bush plot. yeah, right. These silly mooslums got coded messages from VP Cheney and didn't ever have an idea what was going on. They're all innocent little angels. Flight 800 was shot down by a kid with a model rocket upgraded to DCC. The hundreds of fictionally registered democrats in Ohio weren't allowed to vote and so the dems screamed voter fraud. Lieberman ran for VP and reelection as a Senator at the same time, hedging your bets?
Going for it! Gore's little book says that you can help stop glowbull warming by not wasting paper(his book is full of family vacation pictures, DUH!) I can go on and on and on and on.
Kevin is whining now. Be back later.
inch53 wrote:Mornin all, coffee n a short stack Zoe, Another foggy mornin here, and still have a chance of rain. No outside work, so I guess I'll have to play with the layout some more. JERRY, I remember the Ben Colter, just can't remember the words. I misss the old stuff, was you were still on the air. RT, good too hear you be doin alright, keep it up. RYAN, how bout some photos of your progress on on the new project. Thought I'd post some odds n end pics. Seen Tony Stewarts car hauler over in Effingham the Sun. before the brick yard for you Nascar fans And this is the G scale they had over to the Altamont show Worked on the layout some plan on some more today. Mother's got a jewlery party tonight in Paris, so she won't be round. She also has to be at the fair grounds tomorrow to do checks for the mud bog there, so our week end shot again. Hope ya'll have a good day inch
Mornin all, coffee n a short stack Zoe,
Another foggy mornin here, and still have a chance of rain. No outside work, so I guess I'll have to play with the layout some more.
JERRY, I remember the Ben Colter, just can't remember the words. I misss the old stuff, was you were still on the air.
RT, good too hear you be doin alright, keep it up.
RYAN, how bout some photos of your progress on on the new project.
Thought I'd post some odds n end pics. Seen Tony Stewarts car hauler over in Effingham the Sun. before the brick yard for you Nascar fans
And this is the G scale they had over to the Altamont show
Worked on the layout some plan on some more today. Mother's got a jewlery party tonight in Paris, so she won't be round. She also has to be at the fair grounds tomorrow to do checks for the mud bog there, so our week end shot again. Hope ya'll have a good day
inch
Friday, August 11, 2006
Good afternoon all!
Many threats of thunderstorms but so far not much in the way of rain in our neck of the woods for the past two weeks, we are getting some cooler temps however, and that is a nice change. It has been in the mid to upper 70’s since mid morning and staying there this afternoon too.
Hoople, good to hear the 6% is working well with the 0-6-0 and the 50’ cars!
Dick, sounds like a very productive day of MRing you had there. And welcome to the break from the heat, it sure is nice!
Inch, since we joined the Y this past weekend I have not been in the train room in almost a week! Here are a few of the pics from the layout progress, though they do not represent the latest work:
This is the sub-roadbed for the double mainline run and the newly installed hardboard backdrop.
This is some of the backdrop section before the next phase of the sub-roadbed installation.
Inch, nice pics you got there! How long did you follow that HD truck?
PC, nice picture post card photos of that sun set. You have a great view to look forward to once you settle into the new house!
You all have a great weekend!
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
Good Evening to all, another crazy day Had to finish shopping for school supplies, the boys decieded they wanted to start classes next week(how's that for a turn around, most kids fight going back to school) so that means I 've got to get busy with my lesson plans, we'll most likely start Wed.This means I'll need to do my layout at night. My health problems luckly haven't become anything yet, my blood sugar isn't high by Gov. standards but my Dr. has been monitoring me for several years (my Dad's family has had probles for many generations as well) and he has been see an increase over the last couple of years as for the colestoral (bad spelling) 2 years ago It Was at 280 now It's down to 229 and I have lost 40lbs with another 10-15 to go. I'm watching my diet carefully. Enough of my rambling,I've got work to do.
Bye all
Howdy folk's,
Anyone fancy a black Pudding for dinner, Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Hope everyone's in good health
I just posted a thread about a satellite station i just built, have a look, it's my first topic i'v posted in ages
Hoople wrote:SilverSpike, I said the 4-8-4. I don't have the 0-6-0 yet.
Oh! That makes sense! I was wondering if an 0-6-0 was getting up a grade like that.
Evening all
Just been sitting back here in the corner booth listening and watching,so let me give a belated to all the newbies and especially the Lady of the group.
Ryan Wait until Paul sees both of your Hi-Tech thingys sitting side by side in the pic of your layout.
Racquetball was my sport for a few years and it is the one I did get pretty good at as I was playing club level A. We would play 5-6 days a week and 3-4 hrs at a time,not to mention league and challenge night. Good Game. Get a good composite raquet,it saves the elbow as you don't get the vibration going up the arm.
Eight weeks to Apex
PC The house is coming along very nice.
Not much more to say,so I’ll just sit here in the corner booth for a while more
Talk to you later
Duke
,Dick,I made it to HD tonight to help you with your up front parking.
Well now,would you look at this. First post in a while and I get TOTP,so belly up everyone.
"Don't take a wooden nickel,because it isn't worth a dime" by my Dad
"There are only 3 things you need out of life:A gentle grade,the wind in your face,and cinders in your hair.....But keep an eye on the water glass!" Jack Evans
Evening Gang: Would you believe that it rained today? ould you believe it rained yesterday also? IT DID! not a whole lot but itwas wet. We had about a 1/8in yesterday late afternoon and about 1/4in late afternoon today. Not enough to break the drought but something. Of course it's still hot and now it's muggy too.
I mowed what is left of the lawn just befor it rained. I worked about 10 min. and came in to drink some water and rest for a half hour or so than back out. There isn't much grass left so it only took 2 cycles. Thats bad for an acre and a half.
The cows are still getting along but we're feeding a bale a day. We also feed 50lbs of range cubes a day. I hope that we get alittle growth on the pastures with this rain but I think that it may be too late to make a differance. It may help the hay fields. It's supposed to rain again Sat, Sun, and Mon. We'll have to wait and see. Down here when they say scattered thunder stormes it depends on which side of the road you are on to get rain.
Well I'm going to hit the sack. Good Night All
Good Evening Coffee Clubbers,
Just got back home a short while ago. Fran is busy unpacking and here I am on the computer. Maybe tomorrow I'll start looking at the 12 or so pages that you guys have posted since my last appearance. The good news is that we have no more trips planned until the end of the month. We may even head out to the orange grove tomorrow to check on how the crop is coming.
The trip went well. The convention was nothing special, but it's always good to see some old friends again. I will write up short summaries of both trips sometime this week, I promise. Pictures will probably need to wait until I get the Canada trip pictures correctly downloaded from the CD's they're on.
Anyways, just to let you know that we're back and well.
Best regards
Ed
Another late night for me(insomnia stinks but hate pills), Last night was up until 3:00am slept until 6:30 and here I am writing at midnight Ah Well"Such is the life of the merry one". I actually don't mind being up late, I can get a lot of stuff done at night(just nothing to loud,I don't wake the boys,bad, bad, bad, idea!!!). Any way I have been fighting with my tunnel trying to set it up so I could remove it in the event of break down(not on my watch of course) Finall can up with a nonconventional idea. I started by weaving some stiff wire through some plastic canvas(In case you don't know thats that plastic stuff crafters use to make alot of "useful?" things) The canvas is fairly flexable but doesn't hold shape alone, the wire enabled me to manipulate the tunnel into the pefect shape, Covered it with news paper(to cover holes) and used a plaster of paris, It worked great and isn't very heavy, best of all I can lift it up for those times when the need arises.
Duke, thanks for the welcome, I don't mind being the only lady in the room as long as it is filled with Gentlemen and so far everyone has been very nice.
Grayfox, Doc wants my total below 200 , next apt. is next month, so I keep striving and praying the combo has always worked for me.
Good Night to One and All
Morning all,
hello Lisa, good to see you, fancy a cup of Ed's fresh orange, speaking of Ed i'm glad you had a good trip Ed, looking forward to seeing the pics, sometimes it's best to let the lady unpack, i always get shouted at for putting stuff in the wrong drawer
Good morning ! from Indiana.
08-12-06
Bill Tidler Jr.
Near a cornfield in Indiana...
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Inch don't blame you for not happy about daughter moving to FL. I lived there for 10 years and was glad to leave (no offense Flip but when family is 1000+ miles away not easy to visit for either.) My point FL is nice place to visit but its not for me the ones there that enjoy great for them its just not for me. Enjoyed my self most the time I was there but its always nice to get atleast close to home.
Hi all back ed from your trips.
to any new members I may have missed.
Not much happening here heading down to the local hobby shop to talk to the owner/freind see whats happening and maybe take my 1931 set and run it for a while seeing I don't have a layout yet.
Well take care all.
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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Thanks for the offer Steve, I'll Take that OJ and a cup of coffee and a whole grain bagel, please.
Good morning to one and all, hubby is home today so maybe I will have a few (uninterupted) minutes to work on layout(prob.very few) I need to clean some tracks today but my eraser has had it, anyone know a good way to clean them with out it?
Got to go for now
Morning everyone, been a while since I last posted so I decided to brave the dialup and check in.
to all the new folks I've seen while reading at work. I'm not going to name names, don't want to miss anyone.
RT, good to hear your problem wasn't too serious.
Since my vacation was "flooded out" last month I decided to take a mini-vacation and make this a four day weekend. I went to Steamtown in Scranton yesterday. One day is not enough for that place. I paid for the cab ride in the engine. That was really interesting. Talking to the crew there, it takes 60 hours of training to get a pilot's license and 240 hours of training to get licensed to operate a steam engine! Here's a couple pics:
They have a little of everything from large engines...
to small ones.
This is the one I rode in, a CN Mikado, my favorite type of steamer.
Guess that will do for now. See you later.
hello guys
Its been a while sence I got on here. I have been busy. My wife had our baby boy back in march. They are both doing fine now. Mom was down for about 2 months. So I have a new found respect for mothers. We sold our house and moved closer to my work so my drive went from 2 hours to 15 mins. Thats great!!!!
I had to take down the railroad though. But I will get to start over soon. We plan on moving to texas sometime this year. But it broke my heart to take all that work down. Im getting out of the Navy here in about 10 days. So i get to be home more with my new buddy.
I hope all is well with you guys. I hope to talk to you guys soon
Cary
Hi Paul, I sympathize with you on the rain and pasture. I had an alpaca farm in Washington with two acres of pasture for them and another 10 acres of desert for a horse. Also an acre of landscaped yard. We were in the high desert with around 7 inches of moisture a year so we ran sprinklers every day for an hour or so. Seemed to be chasing water every day.
I used to stand and watch the snow come down. Now here in Arizona I run out to watch the rain come down. When you get my age the little things get you. HA HA. TARP
Morning all....sunny and cooler here today just about perfect...Zoe...I'll have the lumberjack special and coffee please....I got started on a small IC depot yesterday..May start cutting it out today...Sanded on the base of the cake pan turntable...Watched the new MR dvd Dream plan and build...Its pretty good I think I'll keep it...
Paul...Glad to hear you got a little rain maybe you will get more this weekend...
Ed...Welcome back! We will all be waiting for your pictures...Got any projects planned for the layout?
Lisa.....Tunnel sounds good....can you post some pictures?
Mike.....Sorry to hear about kids moving to Florida..With mine just down in Robinson seems like I never get to see them..hope things work out with #1 Grand daughter...Will she go to school here in Martinsville....They didn't have a engine in yards in Paris? Do they still have a transfer caboose?
Ryan....Great progress on layout...Keep us updated...
Danny ....Good to see you in the coffee shop...
Attaboy....Like that little 0-4-0 is that maybe a fireless cooker?
Well got go I'm taking my chair up to the library to sign up for Angel Ministries....You all have a great Saturday afternoon and evening......Jerry
Hey Folks,
Been a long while and 1st time with new format.
CFO and I patched things up so no big D!!
I have 5 layout bids out and one resturant install on Wed. I have missed being here and if someone would sent me a brief on whats happened that would be great.
I hpoe the avatar works and it is a pic of the 844 on the way back from Del Rio.
God bless.
Trent
Well time for a quick visit, diet Pepsi please, no ice. Thank you.
Gloria had a couple of real good days and things are looking better.
Got a couple of new shots of Gloetown showing the new siding. I cleaned up the table a little for these...
I also found some new signs, you may get a kick out of them...
And now for the biggy... A new vehicle for Fergie when he gets back...
Hope you all had a great day.
Happy MRRing
Luct: Love those signs, where did you find them?
inch53: who elses haulers have you seen. Hopefully not Jimmie Johnson's.
My dad's work had a 50th anniversary "picnic" today. It was great. the guys down at the club(part of my dad's work) brought out trains to run if we had any visitors. One of the guys brought out 8 sound equipped enigines. diesel and steam. one of the other members brought out a coal train pulled b 3 kato sd45t-2's. 2 Rio Grande, and one UP.
that's all for now,
dekruif