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The cars of Elgin Park- look what some fake cars and real houses look like with the right camera angle- amazing pics. Remember it when you are on jury duty
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/10/mini-motorama/#slideid-100881
Hey folks, just remember this: Stop taking videos of everyday occurrences. Alex Jones is feeding you a pack of lies. Nothing to worry over here. Go home and do as you are told.
Taking a person with their hands handcuffed behind their back and then raising their arms and then telling them to Stand Up is sadism that should look very familiar to John McCain. The fact he is doing it to a woman is just that much worse.
I wonder if he was planning on driving himself home? When he went to his car and got his loaded gun, was he in control of his vehicle?
In some parts of the world, “Deputy” isn’t a job – it’s a perk the Sheriff cn give to his friends to push around the citizens. He’s been fired, but tht’s not all that should happen.
Alex Jones is a Daydream Believer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU615FaODCg
She took the Last Train to Clarksville
How about that song about a West Orange, NJ street named Pleasant Valley Way?
The only one I know was co-written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Valley_Sunday
Bottom Line: Scuse me if it was clear somewhere in the vid, but what alleged offense did the woman commit?
She was guilty of being in the Army. He claimed to be a marine (which may not be true). She’s from the nearby army base. The general opinion seems to be he tried to pick her up and she said no, so he went to his vehicle, got his gun, badge and handcuffs and arrested her.
He was off duty and outside of his jurisdiction – he is a Sheriff deputy and the restaurant is in the city. The city cops showed up, watched the video and arrested him.
She is stationed at Fort Jackson, near Columbia SC, which has an indirect connection to the song Last Train to Clarksville.
OK, thanks for clearing that up for me. It was quite clear from the vid the jackass deputy went way over the line even if would have been a valid arrest. Good for the city cops.
Tennessee military base in the 1960s.
Next stop, Fort Jackson for basic training.
It’s a quant notion that someone would take a train to Clarksville, and there would be more than one a day (“last train”)
Clarksville was on the defunct L&N (Louisville & Nashville) Railroad
http://www.tnvacation.com/vendors/l_n_train_station/
http://www.lnrr.org/
It was eventually taken over by the Seaboard Lines, which then was merged into CSX
As was the fate of many railroad lines, the unprofitable line through Clarksville was spun off as a short line called RJ Cornan Railroad. Typically, these are operated by the owner without union rules. The line south of Cumberland City has been torn up. One train a day goes up and down to service local customers.
I cannot draw any connection between the Monkee’s video and the actual point of the lyrics
http://www.youtube.com/embed/VUUSdvwEC_Y
The 1960s were totally screwed up
Sometimes you don’t have time even for a fast train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQaUs5J2wdI
My Obama supporting nephew has stars in his eyes at the thought of high speed rail from Charlotte to Raleigh. Today, it is a three hour drive by car. There is one Amtrak train a day called the Piedmont that takes 3 hours & 11 minutes – in 2012, it carried 162,000 passengers in the year, which is 221 round trips passengers a day. The North Carolina State Fair is along the route, which may affect those numbers.
The SouthEast High Speed Rail Corridor project would cut the Charlotte to Raleigh time from 3hr 11 Min to 2Hr 50 min (at a maximum speed of 110 mph) with an average speed of 85 mph using the same tracks as the freight trains and stopping at all the same stations. Charlotte to Washington DC (center of the known universe) will take about 7 hours.
Flying from Charlotte to DC takes 1 hr and 25 minutes. There are 14 flights a day from CLT to Dulles and 10 to Reagan National. Advance booking is $199 round trip.
Amtrak has 1 train a day that costs $156 for a refundable ticket. It leaves Charlotte at 1:46 AM and today takes 8 hours and 7 minutes.
Driving in your car takes 6 hours and 31 minutes.
Build it and they will come?
If you can get a quote for 200 million for the project, you can fund it by charging each of the daily riders $1 million each. Probably not enough to cover the cost overruns and government administration costs though.
I would stick with the car for that journey from Charlotte to DC.
Amtrak is a money losing boondoggle. Unless and until we spend the billions (trillions?) to build a true high speed infrastructure then any talk of ‘high speed rail’ in the US is a joke (as the speeds you note attest).
As for the Charlotte airport, I will never fly through that place again. Good luck to you if you use it. That place is a train wreck. I have spent nights stranded there, as have friends and loved ones. The only explanation I have ever gotten for why this happens so often in Charlotte was from an airport worker one of the night’s I was stuck there. He said that Charlotte is essentially a “non-hub” hub. So when bad weather strikes, all those connecting flights get stuck in Charlotte. That is as good an explanation as any.
Whatever the reason, the place is horribly run. The last time I was stuck there (this past winter due to a whopping 3 inches of snow), there were several thousand other passengers stuck there all night with me. The airlines refused to put anyone up in hotels and the idiots that run the airport closed all the bars and restaurants at 10 pm — I did find one bar/restaurant that was still open until about 11:30 (and was making a killing, obviously), but the morons in charge of the airport forced them to close with hundreds of customers waiting to be served.
Looking back on it, it amazes me there was not a riot that night. There were hundreds of angry, exhausted people stuck there for at least 24 hours.
My bet is that the airport is run by the government, as are most airports in the USA. Better to follow the rules so your employees can be home in bed at a regular time each night, and not complain and have you replaced as their politically appointed manager. Foyle, you don’t vote in Charlotte, so it doesn’t matter what you think of the airport management.
In many other western countries, airports are run by businesses that like to serve customers and make money. A privately owned place would have had the stores open all night long, with vendors renting sleeping bags and pillows.
1/10th of an inch of snow and North Carolina closes. Nobody has snow tires or shovels and cities have little or no snow removal equipment. 3 inches is a major blizzard. By noon, it will all melt. That’s just the way things are.
Charlotte has been in a tug of war for at least 30 years. I can translate that hub remark a bit more. Charlotte wants to be a regional “end point” on airplane flights, in part reflecting the history of Piedmont Airlines. They don’t want the expense and noise of becoming an O’Hare or Harts field. There are relatively few hotels near the airport.
However, US Air seems to be trying to make it more of a hub – because it is not congested, it’s easier to force people to make connections there. Gates are still fairly short walks from the terminal and each other.
So what you were caught up in was the conflicting goals – the airlines wanted you there, the airport didn’t.
Reading up on this, the airport is still owned by the City of Charlotte, but those wacky Republicans voted to strip it from city control and set up an independent airport authority (I smell Goldman Sachs nearby wanting to float bond issues)
The Courts are in process of deciding if this will happen. An independent (unelected) airport authority would want to grow the airport into Atlanta or Dallas / Fort Worth and the City won’t be in the loop any more in the decision making.
The Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports are owned and run that way, by the NYNJ Port Authority that also runs the NYC bus terminal and the bridges and tunnels, locking out any competition. A billion dollar bridge to nowwhere in Alaska to a small island is approved by Congress because it will not be competition to the NYNJ Port Authority – they like the hour wait time to cross the Hudson for $10.
BTW- they are really accountable to no one- they have a council that is appointed by the governors of two corrupt states.
Don’t forget they also owned the World Trade Center
I was quite aware of the crash of Eastern Airlines flight 212 in 1974 where the pilots flew the plane into the ground. What I just learned (unless Wikipedia is wrong) is Steven Colbert’s father and two brothers died in that crash.
Here is a more detailed explanation:
http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/Jerry-Orrs-quiet-war-for-the-airport-229458821.html
This guy has been working at the airport for 38 years, and running it since 1995. 90% of the passenger traffic at the Charlotte Airport is from US Air. The city wanted to fire him. US Air did not want that. The Republicans in Raleigh created the commission with language that he would be the leader of the Airport Commission.
While the City of Charlotte will have 7 seats on the 13 member board, surrounding communities will get the other six seats to create a more regional governing board rather than being part of the city. Charlotte will continue to technically own the airport and the land, but the authority will operate it.