David,
Let me explain it from my multilingual standpoint: the problem isn’t a lack of understanding, comprehension or absorption when reading your posts. The problem with your posts is lack of credibility (on account of the sources you quote and/or link to), along with factual errors which again reinforce the just mentioned.
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:
David,Let me explain it from my multilingual standpoint: the problem isn’t a lack of understanding, comprehension or absorption when reading your posts. The problem with your posts is lack of credibility (on account of the sources you quote and/or link to), along with factual errors which again reinforce the just mentioned.
Hans-Jorge,
Ich kann nich schriebe gute Deutsch, aber ich bin studieren auf CD wan ich fahren auf mein Landwagen. Enshulegen Sie fur mei schlechtest Deutsch.
David
David Hill said:
No factual errors, prove them incorrect. Because you do not like the facts as presented, you discount the scientist's findings? In other words, "Don't confuse me with the facts." I have my mind made up already."Hans-Jorge,
Ich kann nich schriebe gute Deutsch, aber ich bin studieren auf CD wan ich fahren auf mein Landwagen. Enshulegen Sie fur mei schlechtest Deutsch.
David
David Hill said:
Only Barack Hussein Obama is a mullato and not black. Has never had any of the struggles of the people in this country of African decent, he was raised in a privileged white home with all it's advantages. He is actually a White/Arab by birth.He is currently an ineligible usurper holding the office of president, but is not by definition legally able to BE president.
His race has nothing to do with it.
There are plenty more errors in your posts and I don’t mean spelling errors. But if you expect me to read all the garbage again, forget it!!!
Soooooooo what about that LS railroad you plan on building?
Quote:
. A significant and understandable fuss has been made about Obama becoming the first African-American President. Obama is arguably not, however, “African-American.” His father, Barack Obama, Sr., is allegedly one-eighth African (on his mother’s side, from the Luo tribe in Kenya) and his father’s remaining ancestry is purported to be Arabic. Candidate Obama is thus more accurately referred to as “Arab-American.” Obama is not (like many black Americans) the descendant of African slaves owned by white American slave-owners. Having Arab ancestors, Obama is, in fact, most likely a descendant of slave owners, because Arabs have for many centuries traditionally owned slaves and been active slave traders. Further, the names Barack and Hussein are of Arab origin. (There is insufficient publicly-available evidence to state with certainty the percentages of Obama’s national ancestries.)http://www.colony14.net/id41.html
I really have very little so far, but have decided to model everything around the American Civil War (War of Northern Aggression) era since I enjoy reading American history and am a veteran so modeling the raid that earned the Union troops the first Medal of Honor, seems interesting. Civil War Railroads by George B. Abdill has plenty of photos of locomotives that could be helpful if I need to make some modifications.
I have started building the rolling stock with an A&NCRR Conductor’s Car,and a Pennsylvania bank-barn. One piece at a time. I hope to pick up some track as it becomes available and an engine.
Thanks in advance for any tips & tricks. I hope to be able to return the favor sometime.
Dave
David Hill said:
I really have very little so far, but have decided to model everything around the American Civil War (War of Northern Aggression) era since I enjoy reading American history and am a veteran so modeling the raid that earned the Union troops the first Medal of Honor, seems interesting. Civil War Railroads by George B. Abdill has plenty of photos of locomotives that could be helpful if I need to make some modifications.I have started building the rolling stock with an A&NCRR Conductor’s Car,and a Pennsylvania bank-barn. One piece at a time. I hope to pick up some track as it becomes available and an engine.
Thanks in advance for any tips & tricks. I hope to be able to return the favor sometime.
Dave
On that LS Railroad make sure it ends up the correct gauge for the area, from what I read there was a hodgepodge of track gauges in the South when the North had already standardized on 4’8.5".
I somehow thought this threat would die a long time ago and have to confess to not having read the middle half but, since it is still around I will give it another kick.
Two quick things…
Dave,
1.Just where the current president got his skin colour (English spelling) is important why? Is he not a fully paid up US citizen? Didn’t lots of Americans vote for him? I only ask because it has surfaced on this page of the thread under your name, sorry if it came from somewhere else.
2.Yep, please go back to the scientific evidence! No transitional forms in the fossil record? Please subscribe to a reputable Paleontology journal. The fossil record is replete with transitional forms. The ONLY people that say otherwise are those that have an ideological reason to ignore them.
It is up to you how you interpret them, and how that fits with your personal belief, but there is no need for a strong argument to be supported by lies, where ever they come from.
Discovery Institute propaganda is NOT a review of scientific data. Be careful of what they claim, like ALL opinion stuff, including mine! Dig
I will happily leave you and the god of Abraham alone (along with all the other major gods in vogue around the planet at the moment, not to mention those out of fashion, I like Thor though ), if you will allow science to be science and not use a bronze age text from people who thought the earth was flat as a filter for evidence.
I would have thought that a divine all knowing, all powerful creator of the universe was quite capable of looking after themselves without your need to get upset when someone questions interpretation.
Your religion is your choice, but use it as an argument in a discussion of scientific theories and you may well find that others have a different view.
Now about getting a pony and more track laid…
I am really looking forward to seeing if the disaster that was LGB can get me some christmas cars and I soooo want a Krok, even a blue one…
HJ,
I don’t know what is the major religion of Kenya, it may be Evangelical Christian, if what I learned during a week in Mombasa and environs while on active duty. Everywhere I went it seemed there was another Evangelical Church, usually Anglican.
This I do know for sure, the first two people I met after I walked down the brow were proudly Muslim, a taxi driver, and a hotel clerk. The young man that I hired as a walking tour guide was Muslim, as was the gentleman from whom I purchased a hand carved from ebony rhinoceros. I met the carver and his son after midnight on the last night in port. I was returning to the ship from liberty, and he and his son were just finishing packing up the last few pieces of hand carved rhinos, giraffes, lions, elephants and so on. I spotted the rhino in the trunk of his car and just had to have it.
Most wood carvings meant for the tourist trade are simple outline only, called “slicks,” very little detail. This fellow missed that memo. His stuff was very detailed, and this rhino even had skin folds carved in. I asked for his best price, he mentioned a price that was insulting to the piece, it was so low. I could not insult the gentleman by just whipping out my wallet and paying what he asked, as though the rhino, and by extension, the carver, were beneath contempt, so I came back with a counter offer.
As the dicker progressed, and we got closer to an agreement, he offered me the hospitality of a Coke on ice, very refreshing in the midnight heat. We sat and sipped our Cokes, talking about this and that. He mentioned that his son, who was perhaps 16 or 17 was a good scholar, and was going on to University with tuition funded by the Christian Evangelical missionaries who had been his secondary school teachers. Remember, now, he is Muslim. Anyway, as we finished our Cokes, it was time to reach an agreement, so we did, I reached into my ruck to get my wallet and pay him in the local money. There was a Panasonic “Walkman” like tape player-AM/FM radio on top that I had to pull out to get to my wallet. The kid’s eyes lit up and he pointed at it, so I offered it to the gentleman instead of the money. Seeing the desire in his son’s eyes (the kid already had it on and was listening to it) he waved off the money and accepted the tape deck instead.
I made sure that it had new batteries, gave the kid a Jethro Tull tape, picked up the rhino, and walked aboard the ship. What makes this story so cool is that both of us, the carver and I, walked away from the deal feeling like bandits.
Sorry for the digression, but the first two people I met in Kenya were Muslim, and so were the last two people. That must count for something.
Steve Featherkile said:
HJ,I made sure that it had new batteries, gave the kid a Jethro Tull tape, picked up the rhino, and walked aboard the ship. What makes this story so cool is that both of us, the carver and I, walked away from the deal feeling like bandits.
I would never give up that one. It was a “Best of…”
I saw Tull live last summer. What a performance, what a performer!
Fred Mills said:That's proof that Al Gore's campaign is effective.!
On the "Global Warming" note......how come this winter's reports are showing an increase of Artic ice........?
Happy RRing,
Jerry
David,
I can assure you that the English language is my indigenious language and I am fully aware that there are those who use inuendo as a subtefuge to hide their true message. My faith frowns on the language that you have used throughout this thread, to insult others and yet it is you, the one who professes love of god, who is the one who is doing the insulting and yet, claiming that he has been insulted. As suggested previously, more god-fearing and less insulting of god’s creation.
Maybe an occasional model railroad posting and not your usual political, religious, racial bias. Some may doubt if you actually have an interest in model railroads and are simply using this site to profess your biassed views on humanity. As suggested previously, there are, no doubt, many bigotted sites where you can peddle your trash and your feeling of supremacy. Remember the reason for Lucifer's fall from grace.Geoff Merrell said:
................I am really looking forward to seeing if the disaster that was LGB can get me some christmas cars and I soooo want a Krok, even a blue one…
The proto “Blue Krok” (the one on the RhB) has been scrapped! Good riddance!
Steve,
Sure it counts for something. But it doesn’t advance the “Obama is Arab-American” argument in the least. It just proves that religion is more or less irrelevant - a situation I loudly applaud! - and the sooner more and more people come to the same conclusion, based on experiences like yours, the better! AMEN!
Hans-Joerg Mueller said:Geoff Merrell said:
................I am really looking forward to seeing if the disaster that was LGB can get me some christmas cars and I soooo want a Krok, even a blue one…
George,The proto “Blue Krok” (the one on the RhB) has been scrapped! Good riddance!
Geoff.
American and British Peoples are seperated by a common language…or something to that effect. LOL When I watch BBC programs on Public TV my North Carolina wife always asks " What did he/she say? I can’t understand a word of it." You should have heard the folks in North Dakota when we were stationed there ask her to repeat what she said becuase they couldn’t understand what she had said…Me? I am from Nebraska…totally universal. Uffffda Ole! Ya sure ya betcha Ya’All be good now! YaHear!
N
Noel, in my opinion language is the least of the problem! 
I am quad lingual. I speak Midwesternese; Yankee, Southern, and most important Texan. “Put some more earl in the motor Slick she is 'bout a qart low.”
N
David Hill said:
I really have very little so far, but have decided to model everything around the American Civil War (War of Northern Aggression) era since I enjoy reading American history and am a veteran so modeling the raid that earned the Union troops the first Medal of Honor, seems interesting. Civil War Railroads by George B. Abdill has plenty of photos of locomotives that could be helpful if I need to make some modifications.I have started building the rolling stock with an A&NCRR Conductor’s Car,and a Pennsylvania bank-barn. One piece at a time. I hope to pick up some track as it becomes available and an engine.
Thanks in advance for any tips & tricks. I hope to be able to return the favor sometime.
Dave