THA website Spend a wonderful evening having dinner with auctions and a great group of people who really know their history. View photos of progress. Buy books and videos from their store. Have fun!
Filed under: Humboldt, NCRA, North Coast Railroad, Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Railroad
I am not sure why people are so against finding out out options and the use of public money. In order to have knowledge we must have info. By using public money we can have what we want, that is passenger rail. That is why Union Pacific rejected public money to expand Donner Pass. They did not want to deal with passenger train expansion. East-West rail would be a common carrier. Things that are carried is produce from farms, lumber, ie common everyday things people need and want. There is no way to sneak the boogeyman coal through here. Relax.
Tomorrow is likely uneventful. The fish passage is likely approved without the bridge.
So Hank is once again on his rant on stopping something he does not support. IE East West Rail At least if the study gets stopped, he can continue to say any number for the cost and be right. Ignorance is bliss for hank and others. The idea the general population wants to find out real dollars makes his group mad with fury and scared his money generated by popular topics with his obtrusive ads will be reduced. He thinks he is entitled to this ad revenue and is why he took my blog off the Humboldt Blogs list. He did not like me using and advocating ad blocking software.
So make him mad, help find out the truth by supporting at least the study of the East West Rail and use ad blocking software.
Filed under: Uncategorized
“What makes the green grass grow?”
“Blood, blood, bright red blood makes the green grass grow, Drill Sargent!”
Such was part of my Basic Training. I memorized the serial numbers of my M16A2′s. Then years I was in, and likely over a thousand rounds I shot, not one in anger, nor anybody killed. This is despite many deployments. I am glad of that. The M16 use 5.56mm ammo and can use .223 ammo. The A2 version has a three round burst. The A1 version was not used by most soldiers in my time. The A1 version had full automatic. The reason they moved to the A2 was to conserve ammo. In Vietnam, soldier got scared, put it on full auto, and emptied there magazines in to the brush, hitting only ghosts. If I wanted to take my weapon to the range to practice, I was told to buy .223 long ammo. We were always cleaning the weapons. The good thing about the M16 is it uses cheap ammo, and is US made. The bad is it jams easy. A less prone to jamming is the AK weapons. I can still field strip the M16, though they are easy. The basic load for soldier is 210 rounds, or seven 30 round magazines. A perfect score on the rifle range is 40 “kills” on torso shaped targets, using 40 rounds.
In typical knee-jerk fashion, people spout things off.
“who needs 500 round magazines?” I have never seen a 500 round mag. Have you tried holding up that much ammo, even if it is small caliber?
“Three states banned the .223 for hunting.” Only because the .223 is a bit on the small side to effectively kill large game. Though that was never tested.
“Ban the .233 ammo, it is only used in assault rifles.” Actually, it is the most popular round in the US. There is a shortage on it right now because of the talk of gun control.
“Assault rifles are made to kill at a distance.” All guns are made to kill at a distance. Some are for game(animals), some for Geneva class 1 humans, other for criminals.
The larger the caliber, the more force it can impart on a target, and longer distance the bullet will travel. A magazine is just a box with a spring or two to push the ammo towards the gun. A clip holds the ammo from the manufacture for orderly, and fast loading in to magazine.
With that out of the way, gun bans do not work. Case in point, Sandy Hook, Ct. The idiot and coward who slaughtered all those children and adults, was too young to carry a gun. It is illegal to murder. Connecticut has gun control in place, including assault weapons ban. Things are still a bit murky. However he planned that horrendous act, murdered his own Mother, destroyed his computer hard drive to the point of unable to retrieve info off it, drove to the school, and slaughtered those people.
Despite only one legal place to buy guns in all of Mexico, thousands die from guns. Mexico is very strict about guns and ammo. Do not get caught even bringing ammo in to their country.
New York, Chicago, D.C., all have bans, yet they still have gun problems. Harvard did a study which showed banning does not work. Russia banned guns long ago, and has a higher rate of murder by guns than the US.
At airports we have cameras that determine suspicious behavior, why cannot we have these at our schools? Why isn’t out mental health system better? What is causing so many mental health problems?
The problem with gun control, is the stupid, insane, and criminals do not follow it. However our law abiding citizens are negativity affected. With the speed of information flows now, machining, and 3d-printing a gun ban is ineffective anyhow.
We cannot prevent another one from happening. That was a lie you were told.
Filed under: Eureka, Humboldt, LDS | Tags: Christmas, Eureka, Humboldt, LDS
God bless you!
Filed under: Marin | Tags: Drakes Bay, Marin, NorCal, Obama, Oysters, Wilderness
There is an insanity to the decision to not renew the lease. Forty percent of the oysters in California are produced there. Thirty jobs. Yet in the same decision the ranches are allowed to stay in this “pristine” area. Yes they should stay, but so should the oyster business. Even the creators of the original bill stated it was never the intent to close down these businesses. Oysters filter the water and make it cleaner. Yet though a convoluted process aided by junk science, the decision was to not allow the renewal of their lease. The aftermath is importing of oysters in to the area using planes according to one retail shop. That does not strike me as very environmental. The other thing to consider is existing oyster beds are under threat due to pollution and acidification.
Please sign the petition to save this important part of California. As of today there is 3k signers.
Filed under: Arcata, Eureka, Humboldt, Manila, NCRA, Northwestern Pacific Railroad, Railroad, Samoa, THA, trails | Tags: Arcata, california, Eureka, Humboldt, Novato, Railroad, trails, transportation
I admit being nervous how the committee process would go. As I told NCRA at their last meeting, what they came up with was very smart. Now we have a rail with trail process around the bay. This gives our area the political capital and economic benefits we need to implement the plan a single way could not. I knew that not all the ties needed to be replaced, and the rail did not need to be replaced, yet you naysayers would not listen. We can finally move forward now that the “squeeze” folks have quieted down. For those who continue to doubt normal maintenance can raise the rail-bed effectively for sea level rise, please understand NCRA already has done this as part of the rebuilding process. They raised the trestle down in Novato. On either side the track needed to be raised to match the bridge.
I am a part of this process. I do not have a problem with putting a trail along side the rail. I do have a problem with removing the rail for a trail in these vital areas. We need the tourist train. The tourist train is about diversification of our economy.
