Sherrell, nobody can unseat you!Good Morning Gentlemen!
It's 55 degrees with a 58 high in the forecast -- overcast with some additional rain maybe this afternoon.
LOUIS and JOE -- You two really have interesting reading! What are you trying to do?
NO, you cannot take away my "longest post title"!
Louis -- That is an awesome photo of the Pennsy locomotives! Love it!
Here we are in the age of stupidity. Sorry you had to deal with an idiot, but I'm glad you sold the car!I think I let all y'all know I had sold the ailing car. I put up an ad on Craigslist, and it sold within hours. One of the people that contacted me wanted me to hold it until he could raise money. When I told him the first person to put cash in my hand owned it, he called me, among other things, a scammer, con artist, and racist.
When I told him I couldn't tell his race through the text messages he had sent me, the fact he accused me of being a racist gave me a pretty good clue about his ethnicity.
The only color I see when I'm selling something is the green of the money.
Must've been looking in a mirror when he was talking to you thenWhen I told him the first person to put cash in my hand owned it, he called me, among other things, a scammer, con artist, and racist.
Here's a quote from Joe (aka - борис циник / Boris the Cynic)Many Americans are stupid and it's only getting worse!
Reform of the educational system is what is really needed. Quit treating the precious snowflakes (students) as snowflakes and make them learn like we had to years ago. Get rid of the unqualified teachers. Yes, there are still some idiots around (mainly politicians and lawyers) who want us all to remain uniformed masses. I'll stop the rant now before I offend someone.Americans are not stupid, uninformed perhaps, but not stupid.
Well, I bought my first Scale Trains Rivet Counter loco from MBK this evening on a 5% discount (I hope, 'cause I forgot to enter the code on the order) I wrote to them immediately, now I also hope they're understanding. Anyway, it's one of their T4 Gevos but not W/Sound, but is DC/DCC/Sound ready. It's a bit of a strange deal, this. Although they tell you you can use another brand of decoder, either silent or sound, they also tell you (but not on the sales page, you had to dig to find this out) that because it's a proprietary ESU 21 pin motherboard, you'll only get the basic functions of DC operation from the alternate board you plug in. Only an ESU V4 decoder will give full functions.
Luckily, a Y'tuber had put up a video showing the removal of the shell off of the very same loco, cause he was installing another brand of 21 pin decoder. Very easy to remove and a very nice, clean setup. The LEDS are SMD's, mounted to the chassis, with wires running over the chassis, to the mother board. Nothing is attached to the shell, it comes right off, out the way. And best of all, after all the palaver about this motherboard, so long as you don't mind ditching that, I can't see anything stopping you from fitting an alternative.
Reform of the educational system is what is really needed. Quit treating the precious snowflakes (students) as snowflakes and make them learn like we had to years ago. Get rid of the unqualified teachers. Yes, there are still some idiots around (mainly politicians and lawyers) who want us all to remain uniformed masses. I'll stop the rant now before I offend someone.
Willie: I have to agree with that, to some extent. It does go deeper than that. Our country has undergone a complete cultural change, since the 1930s.
What we object to is actually the continued evolution of that cultural change. I believe that it was Newton Minnow, John Kennedy's FCC chairman, who described television as a vast wasteland. He was right, and that's why we have 300 channels of shows glorifying crime, ignorance, and violence interspersed with propaganda from one or another source. Television is the nation's babysitter. Kids do learn and are affected by the stuff they see on the tube. Now that we have TV networks targeted to various demographic and political groups, TV channels programing to appeal strictly to the demographic. Modern social media only serves to reinforce these divisions. And enforce collective ignorance.
Today is actually Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, although the holiday isn't until next Monday. Ironically enough, he was an avowed Republican while he was alive.
It's easy to blame the schools, but I blame the parents. The people who raised me taught me to read, introduced me to math, geography, science and much more with the newspaper before I went to school.