Posted on 05/13/2015 10:26:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This has nothing to do with infrastructure. It was operator error. Going into a curve at twice the maximum speed limit for that curve, regardless of the mode of transportation, will spell disaster.
They did spend $40 billion of the $900 billion on infrastructure, they just forgot where the other money went.
DK
> The engineer fled the crash. The train was going 106 mph into a 50 mph curve. What was he doing at the time? The fact that he is gay shouldnt mean anything: conservatives need to leave that aside.
Unless he was have sex in the engine car and got punched too hard from behind while leaning against the throttle control.../s
Unless, of course, he was an AA hire, specifically because he was homosexual. And otherwise unqualified for that position.
We don't know that yet, but the odds favor it based on his employment history.
One of those so called shovel ready jobs.
Either way, going 106 into a 50 mph rule book curve spells disaster. The rule book for an operating division gives the speed restriction for each stretch of track according to mile marker. The engineer has to be qualified for each operating division. That is the way every major railroad operates, including freight.
Like the Costa Concordia?
Actually not true. If this engineers advancement through the union system was accelerated due to his sexual orientation it has everything to do with his being “gay”. Engineers used to be the most qualified person and it took a great deal of experience to become qualified, that no longer may be the case.
The engineer is the Captain of his ship, so to speak. He fled while people bled. What kind of animal watches and hears people in agonizing pain and runs. The first article I read about it included a tweet from a democrat senator who asked for prayers and says he was helping people. That should have been the engineer too, but he was more concerned about himself.
The engineer probably fled because he was drunk or high, and wanted to reappear when he would test negative.
Speed has to be purposeful...even drunk or high wouldn’t lead to such speed. Why is the engineer ID a secret?
Muslim?
His identity is not a secret. He's a gay activist named Brandon Bostian.
AMTRAK's "diversity" initiative makes his gayness VERY relevant, as in "was an unqualified person made engineer just to fulfill a diversity goal?"
no man leaves an accident.
no homo activist is a man.
“The dead had yet to be confirmed, the injured were still trapped in smashed train cars, but partisans steering the news narrative griped about infrastructure and lectured about funding.”
Unreal, but keep in mind that they NEED to keep the discussion off of High Speed Rail, as those projects are just starting up and are easy to scuttle at this phase. Kind of like how they got the media to ignore the fact that early generation air bags were decapitating dozens of kids per year...at least until the debate over whether cars should even have air bags did down.
But this quote reminds me of a black dude I once worked with. Really nice guy, but he once got pulled over and got a ticket, and he told us that he knows why he was profiled...I asked him how fast - 82 in a 65. I explained to him that even whites get profiled when they do that.
"My darling Brandon. I love you with every inch of my _________ . I went into a swoon with your offer of marriage. But, my dearest, I am crying my heart out now because I am in love with Bill, and I told him YES YES YES when he proposed to me on his knees. And the ROCK he gave me was fabulous! I am distraught over having to tell you this at such a beautiful but sensitive time in your life. For now though I need space my love. I hope you'll understand."
John
The question should be, was the gay engineer stable, mature and usually of good judgement? He should not be exempt from these questions just because he is gay.
Maybe he was despondent because his boyfriend left him for another woman.
Is a dead AP reporter truly a loss worth discussing?
He’s somebody’s son, husband, father & brother. Every human life means something.
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