House of Eratosthenes

As I’ve pointed out many times before, can’t remember where exactly, there are four words that explain just about everything in American politics: “McCarthy was not wrong.” I know, it makes ya sound like a crazy old man in a wheelchair in a drool-crusted plaid shirt whose relatives never come to visit him anymore, but the thing about “communist infiltration”? Not only one hundred percent true, but never passed out of currency. Not all commies wear fur.

The train jumped the track taking a fifty mile an hour curve at over twice that speed. Lefties, possibly reacting to the “Amtrak” brand name than to anything else, immediately started hyping that it’s all the taxpayer’s fault for not paying enough. Those who try to run a sanity check on their ravings, pointed out it must be one kick-ass rail system they’ve got in mind, that can make everything turn out all wonderful when a train enters a 50mph curve at 106mph. How much do we have to pay for a system like that. And the lefties responded, yes that’s exactly what we have in mind!

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday funding was not the issue, but rather the high speed at which it was being driven…Democrats said funding could have prevented the crash by hastening the installation of the PTC.

“Speaker Boehner’s comments are patently false,” Chuck Schumer, of New York, who is the No. 3 Senate Democrat, said.

“Experts have made clear that Positive Train Control could have prevented the tragedy in Philadelphia,” Schumer said. “It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation of PTC, and to deny a connection between the accident and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality.”

Are you, as they say in the Army, “tracking”? Experts have made it clear! Denying a connection between the accident and funding is denying reality. Because the positive train control “would” have prevented the crash. Yeah, and if a frog had wings it wouldn’t have to bump its ass on the ground all the time.

Someone should tell the number 3 democrat there is a reason why “would coulda shoulda” has such a grating and pejorative sound to it. People who live in that world don’t prevent accidents. The simple fact of the matter is, if you’re going to do any sort of pondering about how things really will work with such a system, PTC or no PTC, you have to ponder how things work in the system as it really exists. That system provided a trained, drug-screened engineer, who was responsible for the travel of the vessel…which reached 106 miles an hour. So it’s looking, for the moment, like the contract was put into effect by both parties and for some reason the employee didn’t deliver the goods. Given that, it isn’t ushering in a new era of noble, enlightened reckoning with responsibility to prattle away about “insufficient funding.” Quite the opposite of that.

After all, with the technology we have right here & now as I type this, a bit more funding could mean it’s quite alright for me to text and, uh, “drive.” With Sen. Schumer’s vision in place and taking charge, why don’t I just go ahead and do that during my morning commute, and if I get someone killed it will be the fault of whoever didn’t make that funding available.

Hence, my comment about commies. None of these people give a rat’s ass about preventing accidents or saving lives. They want to topple the capitalist system. There’s an election coming up next year and they’re pretty sure already that they’re going to lose…unless they can spend all the time, between now and then, blaming the worst of whatever happens on too many Republicans being elected.

Another thing that’s going on, is the lefties at the New York Times are all upset about detention of illegal aliens.

Of all the malfunctioning parts in the country’s broken-down immigration machinery, probably the most indefensible is the detention system.

This is the vast network of jails and prisons where suspected immigration violators are held while awaiting a hearing and possible deportation. Immigrant detainees are not criminal defendants or convicts serving sentences. They are locked up merely because the government wants to make sure they show up in immigration court.

By way of William Teach at Pirate’s Cove, who points out

That’s a pretty good reason, since roughly 30-40% of illegals never appear, and the number of no-shows increased 153% over the past four years.

Let’s add this ALL up and see what we get. We’re not supposed to wonder about why the train was going a hundred miles an hour, instead we should pony up the loot to fully automate the train speed so that the engineer can…well gee, not sure what. We’re not supposed to worry our pretty heads about the illegals being illegal, we should presume the very best about each and every single one of the millions and millions of them. Sure half of them may be here to abduct our children, drive on our roads without licenses, driver’s ed training OR insurance, molest our women…but the other half are here to work hard and provide for their families, see? Forget all about the citizens we have here already, who were born here, and can’t find work. Don’t worry about that. Worry instead about all the global resources the United States consumes, how disproportionate that is with our population. We have to go green! Stop global warming, oh wait it’s too late, but sacrifice everything to stop it anyway.

Our lifestyle compels us to use up more than our share of the world’s dwindling resources, so inflate the population of this corrupt country by way of legitimized illegal immigration. Uh, if we take this all seriously, isn’t that a recipe for burning out the Earth a lot faster? Sorry lefties, it just doesn’t compute, any better than the “moar-better technology would stop the crash” thing. It’s good that Cher thinks it makes sense, but in the end, none of it does.

It just comes back to that election. Is it alright to point this out yet? The framework of the disagreement hasn’t changed, in my lifetime, and I’m no spring chicken. It’s only the cosmetics on the outside, what you might call the “window-dressing,” that’s changed. Lefties don’t want you to survive a train crash, or a home-invasion robbery made against your family by illegal aliens. They don’t want you win, to make it at all. They want you scraping along, limping, hanging on to the bottom rung with bloody fingers. Because these elections are happening every other year, and if they hit when you’re in a position to even think seriously about relying on public assistance…well, it’s really just all about that. That and nothing else.

The whole philosophy of a tax system fits into this. Some of us really do think taxes exist to fund vital government services. Others claim to believe in that…but when the rubber hits the road, there they are, just like William The Conqueror with the Domesday Book, making a big issue out of who “has too much” and who “can afford to pay more.” After the taxes are collected, the real meat of the matter doesn’t have to do with what the government has in its coffers, but what you have left in your billfold. That’s what matters to them: Nothing, or not too much, extra for anybody. Get rid of the margin-of-error. And the savings.

Limp along, barely survive, think about requiring public assistance — and you’ll never vote Republican again. So, no responsibility for anyone. Who cares what the engineer was doing? Find out what it was, it’s what we all should be doing at so-called “work.” More technology is what we need, that way we can blame the taxpayers for not paying enough. More illegal aliens to depress the wages. For those Americans who are lucky enough to find jobs, and justify to their employers the necessity of navigating the byzantine rules of ObamaCare and meeting the high overhead involved, they get to cope with more and higher taxes. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, there is also the matter of this year’s sexual-harassment rules being stricter than last year’s sexual-harassment rules…and, the harpy with the hyphenated last name in the next cubicle majored in womens’ studies, has no applicable skills, feels extra sensitive about it, and is offended by something all of the time. So have fun with that!

See, democrats aren’t really opposed to your success. They don’t even want to take it away from you. They just want to make it statistically much, much less likely.

It’s all about winning elections, and if more people are struggling and unsure of the outcome of all their struggles, democrats win more elections. Theirs is the ideology of despair. You don’t have to wait long to see evidence of this. That’s it, and all the rest of it is misdirection, and recruitment propaganda to get more useful idiots working for them. For free, of course. It’s okay for them to worry about the bottom line. They get to do that, and stay noble; after all, they’re fighting for the cause. You, on the other hand, need to learn to get along with less.

All excellent points. Another point I’d like to add, that is patently ignored in all the liberal conversations I’ve had recently, is that track itself was inspected just a few hours before the crash. Yet every brainwashed cretin insists that Republicans cut money on “infrastructure” that somehow would have helped a private company to better maintain the (obviously crumbling and possibly cruelly preached at with Bibles) track.
- P_Ang | 05/15/2015 @ 06:56
My immediate question to Mr. Schumer would be, “If PTC was so important, why didn’t Amtrak prioritize its installation? Why didn’t they shelve some other, lower-priority spending item to ensure the safety of their own passengers?”

Not for nothing, but since they get over a billion dollars a year as it is, surely some of that could have found its way into safety systems and training for the employees to use them.

Too bad there weren’t any reporters there to ask.
- nightfly | 05/15/2015 @ 07:53
At the risk of saying “it all comes back to Marx” yet again…. well, it all comes back to Marx.

They have this vision of the world, see, and it works perfectly. Problem is, the only place it works is in their heads. But Marx cannot be wrong — if he is, they’re not nearly as smart as they think they are, and all their fancy liberal arts degrees are worthless.

The solution, then, is to import a new proletariat, or create one out of thin air. If they force the “capitalists” to behave super-eeevil capitalistically — which, to keep up with the ever-increasing tax and regulatory burden, they must — and they force-proletarianize everyone else, then by God, the Revolution will happen, and Utopia will arrive, and then everyone will tell Our Betters, the Liberals, how wonderful and smart and enlightened they are… which has always been the one and only point of the exercise from the get-go.

[Seriously, y’all. I’m actually not exaggerating for once. Read Lenin, Mao, Kim, etc. — their efforts to create a prototype proletariat out of thin air are really something].
- Severian | 05/15/2015 @ 08:26
Just to make the lefty whining more unhinged, the speed control system *was* installed on that train and section of track, but wasn’t turned on.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/05/14/exclusive-train-control-was-installed-turned-off-at-time-of-amtrak-crash-congressmen-say

Because of evil Republicans, no doubt.
- cloudbuster | 05/15/2015 @ 13:06
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