Is GZ the new RP?

[hobbsyoyo]

In other words, you're still smoking crack...

And you're chugging Jesus Juice.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Both are annoying and should go away.

 

[Antilogic]

Does Ron Paul support George Zimmerman's right to abort the Civil War!?!?

I vote this for the post of the thread award. Joecoolyo receives an honorable mention.



I'll also note that according to my completely fair and unbiased poll, 100% of CFC is tired of George Zimmerman.

 

[useless]

In other words, you're still smoking crack...

I see you're still hurt over the fact that someone's dared to challenge your perception of Ron Paul, hopefully one day you can heal and move past it until then...

 

[GhostWriter16]

I see you're still hurt over the fact that someone's dared to challenge your perception of Ron Paul, hopefully one day you can heal and move past it until then...

I don't care what you personally think of Ron Paul (If mods are paying attention, let me go on record to state that this is on topic.) If you want to wallow in your liberal social engineering and economic engineering and reject freedom, be my guest.

Just stop lying while doing so.

 

[useless]

"Liberal social engineering" [Citation Needed] "Economic engineering" [Citation Needed] "and reject freedom" [Citation Needed]

"Just stop lying while doing so" I haven't lied.

There's three possible conclusions to Ron Paul's racism and his newsletters:

1. He wrote the newsletters and profited off of them, which makes him a scumbag and a piece of crap.
2. He didn't write the newsletters, but still profited off of them, which makes him a scumbag.
3. He didn't write them and wasn't aware of the writer's opinions despite publishing it himself, which makes him unfit to run a newsletter let alone be a potential candidate for the POTUS.

He acknowledged the content and admitted to writing them but when it became politically inconveniant to have done so he denied it, Ron Paul is a goddamn scumbag who not only published racist, homophobic bigoted trash but also hangs around with racists (such as the owner of Stormfront).

You can keep denying this, ignoring the evidence, trying claim i hate/dislike/reject "freedom" but it doesn't change the fact that Ron Paul is a bigot not only when it comes to race but when it comes to homosexuality.

 

[Traitorfish]

I don't care what you personally think of Ron Paul (If mods are paying attention, let me go on record to state that this is on topic.) If you want to wallow in your liberal social engineering and economic engineering and reject freedom, be my guest.

Just stop lying while doing so.

Don't you believe that an all-powerful space-wizard observes and controls every aspect of our reality?

 

[MobBoss]

I don't care what you personally think of Ron Paul (If mods are paying attention, let me go on record to state that this is on topic.) If you want to wallow in your liberal social engineering and economic engineering and reject freedom, be my guest.

Just stop lying while doing so.

Since you respond so much to such threads, yeah, I think you do care.

Deeds, not words and all that.

 

[Antilogic]

Yes, YES!

Derail the thread about derails!

 

[Goodfella]

Dommy, didn't you just get back from vacation?

 

[AlpsStranger]

Boxers or briefs?

 

[bhsup]

Yes, YES!

Derail the thread about derails!

Consider this trainwreck friggin' derailed!

Train wreck
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For other uses, see Train wreck (disambiguation).
Montparnasse derailment, train wreck at Gare Montparnasse, Paris, France, 1895

A train wreck or train crash is a type of disaster involving one or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track; or an accident, such as when a train wheel jumps off a track in a derailment; or when a boiler explosion occurs. Train wrecks have often been widely covered in popular media and in folklore.
Contents

1 Legal consequences
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

Legal consequences

Because train wrecks usually cause widespread property damage as well as injury or death, the intentional wrecking of a train in regular service is often treated as an extremely serious crime.

For example, in the U.S. state of California, the penalty for intentionally causing a non-fatal train wreck is life imprisonment with the possibility of parole.[1] For a fatal train wreck, the possible sentences are either life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, or death.

The unusual harshness of California's train wrecking statute has been expressly recognized by its appellate courts. The Supreme Court of California explained in 1972 that train wrecking is one of only eight crimes in the California Codes for which a capital sentence is authorized.[2] The California Court of Appeal pointed out the next year that (at that time) train wrecking was the only other crime besides aggravated kidnapping in the Penal Code for which the Legislature had expressly established the punishment of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.[3]
See also

Lists of rail accidents

List of accidents and disasters by death toll

Classification of railway accidents

Boiler explosion
Bridge disaster
Derailment
Signal passed at danger
Tram accident

The crash at Crush, Texas, an intentional train wreck conducted as a publicity stunt
Emergency management
Head-on collision
Railroad accident victims
"Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train", folk song about politicians and bank failures

References

^ "Section 219". California Penal Code. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
^ People v. Anderson, 6 Cal. 3d 628, 652 (1972).
^ In re Maston, 33 Cal. App. 3d 559, 564 (1973).

External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Train wrecks

BBC News: World's worst rail disasters

Montparnasse derailment
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Montparnasse derailment

Photograph of the derailed locomotive
Details
Date 22 October 1895
Time 4 pm
Location Paris Montparnasse
Country France
Operator Chemins de Fer de l'Ouest
Statistics
Trains 1
Passengers 131
Deaths 1
Injuries 6

The Montparnasse derailment occurred at 4 pm on 22 October 1895 when the Granville–Paris Express overran the buffer stop at its Gare Montparnasse terminus. With the train several minutes late and the driver trying to make up for lost time, it entered the station too fast and the train air brake failed. After running through the buffer stop, the train crossed the station concourse and crashed through the station wall before falling onto the Place de Rennes below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry. The driver was fined 50 francs and one of the guards 25 francs.

The train was outside the station in this position for several days and a number of photographs were taken. At least one photograph is out of copyright and is used as the cover page of a book by John Taylor and on the front cover of Mr. Big's album, Lean into It. A replica of the locomotive outside the station has been built outside the Mundo a Vapor ("Steam World") museum theme park in Canela, Brazil.
Contents

1 Derailment
2 Aftermath
3 Legacy
4 References
4.1 Notes
4.2 Sources
5 External links

Derailment

On 22 October 1895 the Granville to Paris express was composed of steam locomotive No. 721 hauling two baggage vans, a post van, six passenger carriages and a baggage van.[1] The train had left Granville on time at 8:45 am, but was several minutes late as it approached its Paris Montparnasse terminus with 131 passengers on board. Trying to make up lost time[2][1] the train entered the station too fast, at a speed of 40–60 kilometres per hour (25–37 mph), and the Westinghouse air brake failed.[3][1] Without sufficient braking the momentum of the train carried it slowly into the buffers, and the locomotive crossed the almost 30-metre (100 ft) wide station concourse, crashing through a 60-centimetre (2 ft) thick wall, before falling onto the Place de Rennes 10 metres (33 ft) below, where it stood on its nose. A woman in the street below was killed by falling masonry; and two passengers, the fireman, two guards and a passerby in the street sustained injuries.[2]

The woman, Marie-Augustine Aguilard by name, had been standing in for her husband, a newspaper vendor, while he went to collect the evening papers. The railway company paid for her funeral and provided a pension to care for their two children.
Aftermath

The locomotive driver was fined 50 francs for approaching the station too fast. One of the guards was fined 25 francs as he had been preoccupied with paperwork and failed to apply the handbrake.[2]

The passenger carriages were undamaged and removed easily. It took forty-eight hours before the legal process and investigation allowed the railway to start removing the locomotive and tender. An attempt was made to move the locomotive with fourteen horses, but this failed. A 250 tonne winch with ten men first lowered the locomotive to the ground and then lifted the tender back in to the station. When the locomotive reached the railway workshops it was found to have suffered little damage.[4]
Legacy
Reconstruction at Mundo a Vapor theme park in Brazil

The train was outside the station for several days[3] and a number of photographs were taken, such as those attributed to Studio Lévy and Sons,[5] L. Mercier,[3] and Henri Roger-Viollet.[6] The Lévy and Sons photograph is out of copyright and is used as the cover page in the book An Introduction to Error Analysis by John Taylor.[7] The picture is also featured on the front cover of American hard rock band Mr. Big's 1991 album, Lean into It.

A similar train crash appears as a dream in the novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret and its film adaptation, Hugo.[8] It is referenced[clarification needed] in the television series Thomas and Friends in "A Better View For Gordon" and depicted in the comic book The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec.[9]

An imitation of the Montparnasse derailment has been built outside the Mundo a Vapor ("Steam World") museum theme park in Canela, Brazil.[10]
References
Notes

^ a b c Richou 1895, pp. 369–370.
^ a b c "Paris 1895". danger-ahead. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
^ a b c "Accident at the Gare de l'Ouest". musee-orsay. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
^ Richou 1895, p. 370.
^ "memorial". Retrieved 23 October 2012.
^ "L'accident a la Gare Montparnasse". Iconic Photos. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
^ John Robert Taylor (1997). An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements. University Science Books. ISBN 978-0-935702-75-0. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
^ Forrest Wickman (30 November 2011). "The Real Movies Behind the Magical Hugo". slate.com. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
^ "Train". Tardi - Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
^ "Mundo a Vapor". mundoavapor.com.br (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 October 2012.

Sources

Richou, G. (9 November 1895). "L'Accident de la Gare Montparnasse". La Nature (in French). Scans available online at cnum.cnam.fr, p. 369, p. 370 and p. 371. Accessed 24 October 2012.

 

[bhsup]

And then, right after the train derailed, FRIGGIN SHARKS FROM THE SKY STARTED FALLING ON RON PAUL!

 

[Cutlass]

Speaking of train wrecks, what's the latest out of Quebec?

 

[Berzerker]

nah, dont wanna get into that - sorry

but it is to see GZ risk his life to save a family and not get a mention from the political hacks at msnbc who've been smearing him for over a year

 

[Traitorfish]

Antilogic, if it is possible, I request that my award be transferred to VRCWAgent with all possible haste.

 

[MobBoss]

does that apply to Christianity?

or does Jesus want both?

Doesn't it go 'faith, without works, is dead'?

Or for this particular instance 'thread, without Ron Paul, is dead'?

 

[bhsup]

Speaking of train wrecks, what's the latest out of Quebec?

ail World Inc. Chief Executive Officer Edward Burkhardt has gone from railroad industry legend to Canada’s public enemy No. 1 in less than a week.

The executive, 74, once named Railroader of the Year by Railway Age magazine, has gotten death threats after a freight train operated by his Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railways crashed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, killing as many as 50 people. Quebec Premier Pauline Marois criticized him for taking too long to visit the accident site and Maclean’s, Canada’s largest newsmagazine, called him “the most hated man” in the town, which sits 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the Maine border.

“I don’t see how he can survive this without being tarnished or worse,” Anthony Hatch, an independent analyst based in New York who has tracked railroad companies for almost three decades, said in a telephone interview. “That would be a shame for someone who’s done a lot of good for the industry.”

The July 6 disaster, which Burkhardt has blamed on the train operator’s failure to properly set hand brakes, threatens to mar a career spent buying and building railroads from the U.S. to the U.K. to New Zealand.

“You go forward and let the chips fall where they may,” Burkhardt said in a July 9 interview at Rail World’s offices in Rosemont, Illinois, when asked whether the Lac-Megantic incident would tarnish his legacy. “If it does, so be it.”

Antilogic, if it is possible, I request that my award be transferred to VRCWAgent with all possible haste.

No way, man! You're line was brilliant! A scalpel compared to my sledgehammer

 

[Berzerker]

Doesn't it go 'faith, without works, is dead'?

I agree, but how about the other way around?

Works without the talk? I mean, plenty of people out there doing "the Lord's work" and dont claim to be Christian or followers of Jesus - just good people (better than me).

Sorry, I shouldn't have dragged you into one of my pet peeves

 

[AlpsStranger]

Link to video.