Gearhead: Steamtrain without rails? Hmmm..
What I think is amazing is there are still steam trains operating around the world, with engines sometimes over a hundred old. Here's Sort Of What It Would Look Like If Steam Trains Didn't Need Rails
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Getting a few things off my chest with Photoscape
Ideas tend to build up slowly in my brain until several pour out one day. One design seems to spark another. Help yourself to these. And I go, "Oh, yeah, we can do this also..." Distribute freely. Photoscape (free!) software available here .
Race to the Bottom
"But he saw too that in America the struggle was befogged by the fact that the worst Fascists were they who disowned the word 'Fascism' and preached enslavement to Capitalism under the style of Constitutional and Traditional Native American Liberty." --Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
Some Measure of Regret
GOP 2014: "Hey wait—there's a pregnant woman in that polling place! Oh my god , she's voting ! Stop her! Help me, quick! " [The single woman's hand moves closer and closer to the ballot—] "Nooo—!" [McConnell wakes up in a cold sweat] [Hillary smiles hideously as the stake is driven through her heart] "You think I'm dead? Hahaha! " [Bohner jerks awake. He caps the bottle] [Bundy drones on to reporters] MILITIA1: Won't that old fool ever shut up? MILITIA2: He played us for fools— MILITIA1 (furious): Shut up! [Video: Bundy tells us about 'Nigroes'] [Hannity yells into a phone] "You told me this guy would be the story of the year!" [listens] "Oh yeah? Well, now we're fucked !" [Paul Jr. stops in hallway; turns to Aide] "Look, I don't care how, but get that Bundy off the air! He's going to blow everything wide open!" [Issa hisses into his cellphone] ...
Driving the message home: the Ryan budget disaster
It's not the big money numbers that's important about the "new" Ryan budget; it's the big people numbers who are affected by this blatant attempt to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. Source: DailyKos