Sunday, May 11, 2014
News Reel Locked Away For Decades Shows Different View Of Hindenburg Disaster. ( With Video)
It kind of boggles the mind that someone would lock up something with such historical significance.
Reading the article, it says it was shown to a select few back in 1987 and then locked up again!
Like no one would be interested?
What was the thought process there?
This is from 1937, it's kind of part newsreel, part documentary. It seems the pilots were having more trouble than people realized, trying to get the thing leveled out before docking, it says they circled around for three hours dumping ballast trying to get it right.
The rear end of the thing was too low and that's what got 'em.
If you are interested, there is quite the article and several excellent photos at the link.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Karma's A Bitch, Ain't It Asshole?
This warms the cockles of my black little heart.
This guy is a loser ex cop busted for stealing equipment and selling it on E Bay so he gets away with resigning but that's not the sweet part, this is;
Sylvia Solano, 21, had just driven a white BMW convertible into a brick wall in a sleepy south side neighborhood.
Solano was taken to jail, arrested after blowing a .24 on a breathalyzer. The BMW was taken to the city impound lot.
Because it was Sylvia Solano’s second DWI, the city kept the wrecked car under the city’s DWI forfeiture law and moved to seize and sell it.
But the car isn’t Sylvia’s. It’s her dad Greg Solano’s car.
“On this night I hadn’t loaned it to her,” said Greg Solano. “I didn’t know she was taking it.”
Greg Solano was Santa Fe County sheriff for eight years, resigning in 2010 after he was caught stealing and selling department equipment on eBay.
It’s ironic he would have his car seized because as sheriff, Solano pushed for the county to get a DWI forfeiture ordinance of its own.
Because Solano says he didn’t give his daughter the keys nor know she was even drinking, he appealed to the city to be considered an innocent owner and get his car back.
The hearing officer denied him.
Oh there's more, much more.
You just HAVE to go read the rest of this to believe it.
I only have one thing to say to this puke.
H/T FARK.
This guy is a loser ex cop busted for stealing equipment and selling it on E Bay so he gets away with resigning but that's not the sweet part, this is;
Former sheriff fighting DWI car seizure
SANTA FE (KRQE) – It was a little after 9 on a Monday night when Santa Fe Police got the call.
Sylvia Solano, 21, had just driven a white BMW convertible into a brick wall in a sleepy south side neighborhood.
Solano was taken to jail, arrested after blowing a .24 on a breathalyzer. The BMW was taken to the city impound lot.
Because it was Sylvia Solano’s second DWI, the city kept the wrecked car under the city’s DWI forfeiture law and moved to seize and sell it.
But the car isn’t Sylvia’s. It’s her dad Greg Solano’s car.
“On this night I hadn’t loaned it to her,” said Greg Solano. “I didn’t know she was taking it.”
Greg Solano was Santa Fe County sheriff for eight years, resigning in 2010 after he was caught stealing and selling department equipment on eBay.
It’s ironic he would have his car seized because as sheriff, Solano pushed for the county to get a DWI forfeiture ordinance of its own.
Because Solano says he didn’t give his daughter the keys nor know she was even drinking, he appealed to the city to be considered an innocent owner and get his car back.
The hearing officer denied him.
Oh there's more, much more.
You just HAVE to go read the rest of this to believe it.
I only have one thing to say to this puke.
How ya likin' that shit now, dick head?
H/T FARK.
Friday, May 9, 2014
I Can Relate
I have always lived by the creed that there are only two throttle positions;
Off and Wide Open.
And if that ain't fast enough for ya's......
This oughtta cause ya to finally change your underwear.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Apply Enough Pressure And Something Will Give
It seems that the people of Albuquerque haven't just thrown up their hands in disgust and walked away from their use of excessive force for everything police department.
They are after some heads to put on display and are totally disrupting City Council meetings and taking them over to do it.
After reading the following article I came to the conclusion that someone is going to forced out of a job if for no other reason that the city can't take care of it's business.
“This is no longer your meeting, this is the people’s meeting,” one demonstrator, University of New Mexico professor David Correia, told the council. “This is democracy in action.”
Eden and his department have drawn widespread criticism for what has been described as a pattern of excessive force, particularly following the release of footage showing shooting and killing 38-year-old homeless man James Boyd in March 2014. A report by the U.S. Justice Department last month blamed “insufficient oversight, inadequate training and ineffective policies” for the department’s regular use of deadly force.
On Monday, one demonstrator attempted to physically hand Eden a “warrant,” but he left the chambers without acknowledging her or taking the paper, while council members tried in vain to quell the unrest before them.
“We have no control of this meeting,” council president Ken Sanchez was quoted as saying. “So if this is your meeting, go ahead.”
Sanchez and other council members then said they were taking a 5-minute recess, during which time the protest continued, with calls for both Eden and Mayor Richard Berry to be fired. The Albuquerque Journal reported that the demonstration turned into a “People’s Council” meeting, which held votes of no confidence against Berry and Eden.
Sanchez later re-emerged to officially adjourn the meeting.
“It just seems like it’s been increasingly hard for us to even do our business, whether it’s about this or other matters,” council member Isaac Benton told the Journal. “If anything, it’s demoralizing for those of us on the council who are trying to do something about the problem.”
Let me explain something to Mr. Benton.
You should have taken notice of this little matter about 34 killings ago.
Talk about being fucking clueless.
In case you hadn't noticed Mr. Benton, your police force is completely out of control, even the Feds say so, in a kind of political ass covering sort of way.
The fact that the citizens of Albuquerque haven't shown up with pitchforks, torches and barrels full of tar and feathers is probably only because Amazon won't deliver them.
It looks to me like you are right there at that point though.
Someone is going to go, it's a matter of time at this point and it is way the hell overdue.
They are after some heads to put on display and are totally disrupting City Council meetings and taking them over to do it.
After reading the following article I came to the conclusion that someone is going to forced out of a job if for no other reason that the city can't take care of it's business.
Protesters serve ‘people’s arrest warrant’ to embattled Albuquerque police chief
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“This is no longer your meeting, this is the people’s meeting,” one demonstrator, University of New Mexico professor David Correia, told the council. “This is democracy in action.”
Eden and his department have drawn widespread criticism for what has been described as a pattern of excessive force, particularly following the release of footage showing shooting and killing 38-year-old homeless man James Boyd in March 2014. A report by the U.S. Justice Department last month blamed “insufficient oversight, inadequate training and ineffective policies” for the department’s regular use of deadly force.
On Monday, one demonstrator attempted to physically hand Eden a “warrant,” but he left the chambers without acknowledging her or taking the paper, while council members tried in vain to quell the unrest before them.
“We have no control of this meeting,” council president Ken Sanchez was quoted as saying. “So if this is your meeting, go ahead.”
Sanchez and other council members then said they were taking a 5-minute recess, during which time the protest continued, with calls for both Eden and Mayor Richard Berry to be fired. The Albuquerque Journal reported that the demonstration turned into a “People’s Council” meeting, which held votes of no confidence against Berry and Eden.
Sanchez later re-emerged to officially adjourn the meeting.
“It just seems like it’s been increasingly hard for us to even do our business, whether it’s about this or other matters,” council member Isaac Benton told the Journal. “If anything, it’s demoralizing for those of us on the council who are trying to do something about the problem.”
Let me explain something to Mr. Benton.
You should have taken notice of this little matter about 34 killings ago.
Talk about being fucking clueless.
In case you hadn't noticed Mr. Benton, your police force is completely out of control, even the Feds say so, in a kind of political ass covering sort of way.
The fact that the citizens of Albuquerque haven't shown up with pitchforks, torches and barrels full of tar and feathers is probably only because Amazon won't deliver them.
It looks to me like you are right there at that point though.
Someone is going to go, it's a matter of time at this point and it is way the hell overdue.
That's Freakin' Spooky
If I am still around another twenty years all that will fit on a chip the size of my fingernail.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
How Far Out Of His Driveway Does He Get Before They Pull Him Over?
I applaud the guy's courage of his convictions.
I also know I would be making sure all my lights worked and the inside of my car was spotless before I even got in it, every day.
Link courtesy of FARK.
I also know I would be making sure all my lights worked and the inside of my car was spotless before I even got in it, every day.
'COPSLIE' vanity plate upheld by N.H. Supreme Court
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — If a New Hampshire man thinks cops lie, he's free to say so on his license plate, the state's highest court ruled Wednesday.
In a unanimous decision, the state Supreme Court agreed with the arguments of David Montenegro, who wanted the vanity plate reading "COPSLIE" to protest what he calls government corruption.
State law prohibits vanity plates that "a reasonable person would find offensive to good taste." But the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union argued that the law is unconstitutionally vague and gives too much discretion to a person behind a Department of Motor Vehicles counter.
New Hampshire had argued that state workers were right to deny the plate, because the phrase disparages an entire class of people — police officers.
The justices said that state law does not define the phrase "offensive to good taste."
"The restriction grants DMV officials the power to deny a proposed vanity registration plate because it offends particular officials' subjective idea of what is 'good taste,'" the court wrote. The decision states the law is unconstitutionally vague and violates free speech rights.
The case was sent back to Strafford County Superior Court for further proceedings.
Attorney Anthony Galdieri, who argued the case on behalf of Montenegro and the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, said he was not surprised by the ruling. "This regulation was an impermissible way to regulate speech under the First Amendment," Galdieri said.
Link courtesy of FARK.
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Something Special For Just An Earth Bound Misfit, I
I immediately thought of her when I saw this, she likes old trains and this one is like the Holy Grail of restoration projects.
We are talking MONSTER Locomotive here. But of course, I see she already knew about it over a week ago now that I posted this.
Oh well, I'm betting the rest of you didn't see it.
snip
They aren't just huge either, they were fast.
There are a lot more pictures, a video and way more to this story at the link.
We are talking MONSTER Locomotive here. But of course, I see she already knew about it over a week ago now that I posted this.
Oh well, I'm betting the rest of you didn't see it.
Big Boy coming through! Locomotive of the Union Pacific Railroad to be restored to its former glory
- The American Locomotive Co built 25 of the monsters to Union Pacific's specifications between 1941 and 1944
- Seventeen Big Boys were scrapped when they were pulled from service, but eight survived and are on display
- Union Pacific chose the 4014 for restoration because it spent more than 50 years in the friendly climate of California
- Big Boys are 132 feet long, weigh 1.2million pounds with a full load of fuel and can reach 80mph
Even the name is legendary. An unknown worker scrawled 'Big Boy' on the front of one of the engines when it was under construction.
'It came out one day, and it had "Big Boy" in chalk on it. And from that day forward, it was Big Boy,' said Ed Dickens Jr., Union Pacific's senior manager of heritage operations, who will oversee the restoration at the railroad's steam shop in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Dickens and his crew recreated the chalk inscription on No. 4014 when they began to move it.
Big Boys are 132 feet long, including the tender, which carried coal and water. They weigh 1.2 million pounds with a full load of fuel. They are essentially two engines under one boiler, with two sets of eight drive wheels, each set powered by two enormous cylinders nearly 2 feet across.
Big Boys are so big that the front set of drive wheels has to pivot separately from the back set to get around curves.
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They aren't just huge either, they were fast.
They were engineered to reach 80 mph, even though the railroad never intended to run them that fast. The point was to fine-tune the locomotives so they stayed in balance at any speed and didn't beat themselves up with their own powerful forces.snip
'You get all that machinery to live in harmony,' McCulloh said.
Their enormous bulk also hid some slick engineering, including a suspension system that kept the drive wheels pressed against the rails when the locomotive straddled hills or valleys.
Seventeen Big Boys were scrapped when they were pulled from service, but eight survived and are on display around the country. Union Pacific chose the 4014 for restoration because it spent more than 50 years in the friendly climate of Southern California, at the RailGiants Train Museum at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds.
Restoration is expected to take three to five years. The railroad would like to have the Big Boy operating by 2019 for the 150th anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike in Utah, which linked the Union Pacific with the Central Pacific and completed the first transcontinental railroad.
It's too early to predict where the restored locomotive will travel. Railroad officials said they will have to choose the routes carefully to make sure bridges and tunnels can handle the Big Boy's weight and size.
There are a lot more pictures, a video and way more to this story at the link.
Monday, May 5, 2014
Miami Police Hold Gun Buy Back , Collect Six Guns.
I know I feel safer now.
In an effort to reduce gun violence and unnecessary injuries to residents, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and the police department held the event for four hours at the Little Haiti Soccer Park.
Residents were able to drop off any firearm and receive a gift card provided by the police department's partners and sponsors with no questions asked, officials said.
Miami police said three shotguns, two rifles and a handgun were turned in Saturday.
Anyone who turned in what police determined to be an assault rifle received a higher-value gift card, officials said.
I love that last line.
Looks like they got off cheap to me.
Miami police hold gun buy-back in Little Haiti
3 shotguns, 2 rifles, handgun turned in at event
The Miami Police Department and the Miami mayor hosted a gun buy-back program Saturday.
In an effort to reduce gun violence and unnecessary injuries to residents, Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado and the police department held the event for four hours at the Little Haiti Soccer Park.
Residents were able to drop off any firearm and receive a gift card provided by the police department's partners and sponsors with no questions asked, officials said.
Miami police said three shotguns, two rifles and a handgun were turned in Saturday.
Anyone who turned in what police determined to be an assault rifle received a higher-value gift card, officials said.
I love that last line.
Looks like they got off cheap to me.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
I Think I Finally Hit The Wall
As much and as hard as I have been working for so long I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
I laid here in this recliner all day yesterday and did absolutely fuck all nothing except take multiple naps.
I just woke up from one here a little while ago and as soon as I am done here, I am going to try and go right back to sleep.
Maybe later some spark of energy will flare but I don't care if it does or not right this minute.
The best part was that I had the ringer turned off on my phone and when I picked it up at one point yesterday work had tried to get a hold of me three different times to come in.
Not today.
There are several other people in that maintenance department and a couple of them are those out the fucking door right at quitting time, won't work overtime unless they absolutely have to types.
You can call those motherfuckers in.
Like I said, maybe later but right now I could give a shit about Blogging or anything else.
I am going back to leak testing the inside of my eyelids.
I laid here in this recliner all day yesterday and did absolutely fuck all nothing except take multiple naps.
I just woke up from one here a little while ago and as soon as I am done here, I am going to try and go right back to sleep.
Maybe later some spark of energy will flare but I don't care if it does or not right this minute.
The best part was that I had the ringer turned off on my phone and when I picked it up at one point yesterday work had tried to get a hold of me three different times to come in.
Not today.
There are several other people in that maintenance department and a couple of them are those out the fucking door right at quitting time, won't work overtime unless they absolutely have to types.
You can call those motherfuckers in.
Like I said, maybe later but right now I could give a shit about Blogging or anything else.
I am going back to leak testing the inside of my eyelids.
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