"The family called because they wanted to address the media. I knew that if we did it in an organized way, it would help them get back to a normal life.. But they called today and said they were more worried about blow back from saying anything that would be favorable to George, and decided they did not want to do any media,".... Nice call Mr. and Mrs. Gerstles, have a pleasant rest of your life living with that one.
Not everyone is capable of being a hero, nor of being on guard for the rest of their lives. There are noisy, nasty people out there.
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Face to a Name ---- Mark and Dana Gerstle with their two children ---- By the way Mark, did you say thank you to George Zimmerman for the assistance ?
Let's not do that. These poor innocent bystanders are still trying to get over having nearly died. Let's not hand them the burden of being the next subjects of the Left's Two Minutes of Hate. And just for practice, let's try assuming they were properly grateful to their rescuers when they were rescued, 'k?
-- trailing wife for the moderators at 1:33 a.m. ET
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An innocent man and a cock's crowing. Wasn't there something written in that regard ?
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The press already published a picture of the family. The media had the grace - legal sense, more likely - to pixellate the kid's faces.
I suspect they've already thanked Mr. Zimmerman, albeit not publicly. I also suspect they also don't want a couple of New Black Panthers standing around near their driveway or their kids' bus stop like a couple of lost missionaries.
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I'd sue their asses anyways, if I declined an interview for fear of violence and had my photo/info published anyways.
An accident as a matter of public record, the patients could be figured out. By making a story out of it, the media strapped a lightning rod onto them.
Which is the real story here, that it is the media which put them in danger and that the agitated are violent.
As for patients and responders, those who live are very thankful of the other and those who do not are missed but not forgotten. The instant something bad happens is the instant that person/group is having the worst day of their life.
The fact that this family is in fear for their lives from Government sponsored and government trigger retaliation for simply thanking someone who may have saved their lives is a very bad indication of where we are in this country.
The fact that the left fully embraces 'Free Mumia' the Philidelpha Cop-murderer (he didn't just kill the cop - he murdered him in cold blood) while at the same time having a government sponsored and government initiated witch hunt and lynching of George Zimmerman and anyone (like this family) who would dare to say anything nice about him - shows us just how depraved and disgusting the left - and the Obama administration - really is.
Honor a Murderer and prosecute a Hero. That is what the world is coming to.
But they called today and said they were more worried about blow back from saying anything that would be favorable to George, and decided they did not want to do any media
They said it without saying it. Of course, that means the liberals won't get it even more than if they had said it.
Some 60 years after carrying wounded soldiers and ammunition during heavy firefights, a decorated war horse praised as Americas greatest equine soldier during the Korean War is finally being immortalized.
Staff Sgt. Reckless, a Mongolian mare that served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, made 51 solo trips during a five-day battle in March 1953, carrying nearly 10,000 pounds of ammunition and explosives from a supply depot to the front lines.
She was wounded twice and later received two Purple Hearts for her service, as well as several other military decorations. On Friday, a 10-foot bronze statue by sculptor Jocelyn Russell of the courageous and insatiable horse will be unveiled at the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, Va.
She wasnt a horse, she was a Marine, said Robin Hutton, whose book, Sgt. Reckless, Americas War Horse, will be published later this year. When the Marines got her, they became her herd. She bonded with them and would do anything for them. Shed follow them anywhere and everywhere.
The passenger train derailed outside city of Santiago de Compostela
Emergency services working to free injured from the wreckage
Eyewitnesses say that the train was on a bend when it derailed
One eyewitness said he heard a bang before the train came off tracks
The train was carrying 218 passengers when it left the rails
Many were travelling to the area on the eve of a Christian festival
Grim death toll may continue to rise
Not WoT unless the bang turns out to be a bomb.
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ZH says a train to Nowhere. Government spent big on un-needed infrastructure and likely couldn't spend enough on maintenance when austerity rolled around.
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The train was traveling at 220 kilometers (140 miles) an hour, while the speed limit was 80 kilometers per hour, it was reported in Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
That's often enough to cause any train to go off the tracks. Sounds like operator error to me. The bang - not a boom - could also have been related to the derailment, an effect rather than a cause.
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07/25/2013 6:19 Comments ||
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Latest reports on fox say 78 dead, over 200 injured.
Posted by: Frozen Al ||
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Watched a new Top Gear last night and was shocked.
The guys went to Spain to test out some "budget" super-cars (all under 200,000).
Why Spain? There were large towns with apartment buildings, hospitals, etc. that were absolutely empty!! They raced on the runways of a new airport that was shut down and totally empty after 5 years. They drove on a freeway for miles that had 0 traffic, why? It went, literally, nowhere it just stopped at a barrier.
Talk about the failures of Socialism/Fascism and the bubble economy...
I thought this kind of thing was only endemic to China. This is what the Demonrats and 'bummer want for us.
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The bang - not a boom - could also have been related to the derailment, an effect rather than a cause.
That would make sense, looks like the second thing to happen was hitting that electrical pylon, and inside a concrete canyon, would all blend together into a boom.
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Yeah, I saw the video at lunch and the bright flash as the pantograph came off the wire probably resulted in a pretty good "bang".
My associate pointed out the third car back seemed to come up off the tracks (maybe 6"-12") immediately before the crash. I saw it, too, and that makes me think of an explosive device.
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Could be just coming off the rail, but worth investigating - at that speed and on a turn it wouldn't take much.
Also interesting to know would be how many other times the operator had run this route at that speed and if with any comperable loads.
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The operator is an idiot. He must have thought he was playing with toy trains when he was doing 190kph in an area marked for 80kph. Then it turned out the speedometer was connected to reality somehow. Perhaps next time he'll go a bit slower. It seems to me that the passengers would have been complaining about the cornering forces before then, no?
I watched a video of it. It appears to me the cars behind the locomotive hopped off the track first and were bouncing around a bit before all hell broke loose.
h/t Jerry Pournelle
A paper just published in the prestigious journal Science (June 21, 2013) raises yet more fundamental questions--or at least it should--about the arbitrary designation of atmospheric CO2 as a "pollutant," in conjunction with anthropogenic climate "warming" hysteria.
Investigators employed standard, robust multi-proxy techniques based upon examining sediments recovered from Lake El'gygytgyn in northeast Arctic Russia (100 km north of the Arctic circle in Chukotka, Russia) to determine local temperatures between 3.6 to 3.4 million years ago. Their findings revealed that during this middle Pliocene era period,
...summer temperatures were ~8 degrees C warmer than today, when the partial pressure [i.e., atmospheric concentration of] CO2 was ~ 400 parts per million [ppm]
The most recent data available from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (May, 2013) at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, and "globally", demonstrates current atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are 399.77, and 396.72 ppm, respectively. Thus at essentially the same CO2 concentrations as those determined from ~3.5 million years earlier, and in the absence of "anthropogenic" CO2 production (i.e., by our bipedal Middle Pliocene ancestors!) any where comparable to what it is now, Arctic temperatures then were ~8 degrees C warmer than at present.
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previous work had indicated only 3F higher during Pliocene
also, co2 was supposed to be 450ppm
Posted by: lord garth ||
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It was all questionable to me from day 1.
It was all fake for sure with the climate gate releases. I am very experienced in computer modeling and know Fortran. The code fragments that were released had several flashing red lights. The worst one being the inclusion of a table look-up to modify the given data with NO indication of where the table came from or what was in it.
The key danger with computer modeling of any kind, whether it is a complex, sophisticated scientific model or a small business Xcel spread sheet is that canonical saying "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
Don't matter if the Garbage going in is accidental or deliberate, the results are worthless.
I also have designed and built FORTRAN numerical models of systems described by complex differential equations. The climategate code releases were smoking-gun evidence of fraud.
That doesn't necessarily mean the principle-investigator was the fraudster, but he was at the least negligent if not worse.
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Holder has made it clear he will ignore Supreme Court Rulings. Which is exactly what he is doing in regards to a recent striking down of the Voting Rights act by the Supreme Court. It is time drain the Washington DC swamp of one Eric Himpton Holder.
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F&F got him held in contempt. Defund the DOJ til they fire him
Posted by: Frank G ||
07/25/2013 18:37 Comments ||
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We are talking fundamental issues here. Time for a confrontation with Holder. He is getting away with criminal behavior because congress does not call him on it and follows through.
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News article doesn't say when she will be in Tokyo to present her credentials, but a safe bet would be sometime after she sobers up.
As an aside, the article headline reads: Obama taps Caroline Kennedy for Japan ambassadorship
They could find a better verb than tap? The question is would you tap a Kennedy for an ambassadorship?
From TFA:
President Obama nominated Caroline Kennedy, daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, to be ambassador to Japan.
Kennedy, whose early and strong support for Obama's 2008 bid gave his candidacy a key boost in helping him win the nomination over then-front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, had been expected to get a top job in the administration.
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Another clear signal that nations must look out for their own security interests because they can't count on Washington to play the Pax Americana game anymore.
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For the collectivists, taps is appropriate, like tapping Manny Mota; also goes along with their childish sexual innuendo fever.
Japan and the entire west pacific is on a balance right now, where putting bad stone into an arch will reap a collapse. Japan needed a serious worker and received a crony appointment. I'd be pissed as Japan.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
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