[iowamark]

[iowamark]

http://www.save-the-delta-queen.org/

See how Congress voted

[Snickersnee]

Two words: General Slocum

[sam_paine]

1) A company willing to do business
2) Customers willing to buy
3) Nobody getting hurt, no social injuries, no discrimination, etc

Should be all you need in a free country.

But there’s myriad laws against wooden boats because of fires back when they were firetraps, and now you’ve got union parasites demanding blood in Washington at the same time.

So hard to see creeping socialism by degree.

Ayn Rand had a simple solution: just quit. Let the parasites fend for them damn selves.

[Will88]

Nothing brings out the old fashioned, cut-throat politics like granting who can and who can’t be allowed to operate a gambling establishment. The less competition the better.

[iowamark]

Delta Queen history and pictures

Save the Delta Queen video part1 09:48

Save the Delta Queen video part2 05:46

[TheBattman]

So what this all REALLY is about - the union is ticked off, so is pressuring their paid lackeys in the SENATE to shut them down.

Nice...

[JimRed]

... I hope that unions do not have that type of influence here in Washington."

What's HE been smoking? RAT politicians (and probably some PUBS as well) have been bought and paid for by the union thugs for generations.

[RedRover]

The late, great John Hartford was a pal of mine. At least he was spared the possibility of seeing the Delta Queen going the way of so much else that is good.

[ikka]

The idiocy of a situation where the Federal government has the final say over whether or not a business can operate, is certainly apparent here.

If nothing else, the law in question constitutes a "taking" and the boat should have been grandfathered in automatically.

[wastedyears]

What’s wrong with a wooden vessel operating at night/overnight?

[iowamark]

Delta Queen calliope by Rosalinda DeLeon

Delta Queen calliope Rosalinda DeLeon round 2