Jan Brady at the Psychiatrist “T.D.S syndrome” claims another
She keeps burying her head wringing her hands and saying “RUSSIA…RUSSIA…RUSSIA !!! ”
Month: July 2018
No one seems to be riding out of town on a rail…yet.
Nearly a year ago these baby’s made big news!
Passenger rail service may soon be coming to the Barre-Montpelier area. Seven Budd rail diesel cars — “Budliners” — arrived in the area from Texas on Tuesday for storage at the former Bombardier plant in Barre Town in anticipation of their future use in both central and western Vermont. Greeting the rail cars as they arrived were John Hollar and Thomas Lauzon, mayors of Montpelier and Barre, respectively. The Budliner passenger cars are seen as the centerpiece of a transportation system that could pave the way to helping meet net zero-energy emission goals in Vermont.
It’s Ironic that Libs and Progressives sometime accuse Republicans of wanting to take America back to the Fifties.
And back on Sept 12th 2017 Vermont visionary David Blittersdorf had bad news and good news.
The bad news, he says, is that the nation and world will run out of oil and face catastrophic collapse at local, national and global levels. The good news is that a combination of conservation and renewable energy sources can avert a crisis, but it will require a concerted effort — and commitment — to do so.
Blittersdorf’s latest pitch on the renewal energy front is to bring back passenger rail service in central Vermont with 1950s-era self-propelled diesel rail cars. It’s his latest salvo that has included pioneering progress in wind and solar energy programs in the state. For Blittersdorf, the writing is on the wall, but he hopes to help rewrite the dismal history of the future.
More than once, he described his plan as “Back to the Future” that will transform the way Vermonters travel while helping to cut the state’s dependence on fossil fuels and combat climate change in an effort to become 90 percent net-zero carbon free by 2050.
But on March 12th of this year Mr. Blittersdorf had this to say…
Commuter rail service isn’t returning to the Granite City anytime soon and a man who has bet big on a railroad renaissance in Vermont said Monday his 12 stainless steel trains are at least a year away from leaving any station.
David Blittersdorf, of AllEarth Rail, had hoped the first of the two-directional, self-contained Budd Co. cars he purchased from Dallas Area Rapid Transit for $5 million two years ago would be carrying passengers this year. However, he told members of the Barre Area Development Corp.’s Board of Directors that was an overly optimistic projection.
Blittersdorf’s revised estimate can be summed up in three words: maybe next year, though he conceded that is far from certain and bringing the service to Barre is more of a dream than a priority.
As Kermit the Frog would say “It’s not easy being green”
Last time I checked here they set in back of the old Bombardier rail car factory.
But maybe the solution isn’t ‘Budd’ but ‘Budd light’.
The city of Montpelier has applied for a $250,000 grant to study launching a light rail service in central Vermont….
the grant application followed a declaration by Montpelier in 2014 of its goal to become carbon neutral by 2030. In 2016, the Montpelier Energy Action Committee partnered with NetZero Vermont on a design contest to advance the vision of a low-carbon future for the city and the region.
All in the name of of “saving the planet”.
Commuter rail cannot operate without massive subsidies of taxpayer money. Even in big cities with large populations.
Back to the 1950’s ? Let’s try for 1900.
Forward into the past!
Trains were the equivalent then of air travel today. Back when roads were impassable at certain times of the year and taking a horse and buggy to Boston was just not practicable.
They were able to operate in the black. Not any more.
” The dismal history of the future” will only happen if “progressives” gain control of it.
Of course the Russians have been meddling
It’s be going on a long long time.
34 years ago, a KGB defector chillingly predicted modern America
In 1984, Bezmenov gave an interview to G. Edward Griffin from which much can be learned today. His most chilling point was that there’s a long-term plan put in play by Russia to defeat America through psychological warfare and “demoralization”. It’s a long game that takes decades to achieve but it may already be bearing fruit.
And this explains why young millennials in general and leftist millennials in particular seem to be oblivious to the facts that can be seen right before their eyes. That they have deluded themselves to an ideology that produces nothing but abject misery and the destruction of liberty. And the lessons of history mean absolutely nothing.
He used the examples of 1960s hippies coming to positions of power in the ’80s in the government and businesses of America. Bezmenov claimed this generation was already “contaminated” by Marxist-Leninist values. Of course, this claim that many baby boomers are somehow espousing KGB-tainted ideas is hard to believe but Bezmenov’s larger point addressed why people who have been gradually “demoralized” are unable to understand that this has happened to them.
Referring to such people, Bezmenov said:
“They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.”
What is happening right now in Venezuela just doesn’t seem to register.
And this is the most disturbing part.
In what is perhaps a most striking passage in the interview, here’s how Bezmenov described the state of a “demoralized” person:
“As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore,” said Bezmenov. “A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures; even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union and show him [a] concentration camp, he will refuse to believe it, until he [receives] a kick in his fan-bottom. When a military boot crashes his balls then he will understand. But not before that. That’s the [tragedy] of the situation of demoralization.”
Joe McCarthy in my opinion has been vindicated.
They have taken control of academia, the media, and the culture.
This is how a state like Vermont can go from this.
To this.
In less then a century.
The left came so close, Hence the fury.
We live in interesting times.
Are school teachers educating or indoctrinating ?
Well in Minnesota it looks like the latter
As teachers perused booths retailing titles such as “Marxist Education,” “A World to Win, the Life and Works of Karl Marx,” and “How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America,” some attendees questioned the legitimacy of the union as a representative body. As one vendor put it, “do you really think that the average joe, like a normal guy just off the street would come in here and be like yeah- this is what I think a teachers union should look like?”
A sampling of books at the convention.
Teachers on the march for open borders.
These people teach our children and you taxpayer pay for it.
Marxism, socialism, communism, has brought nothing but poverty misery, and death besides robbing people of their liberty.
Ah, but we’ve never had the right people in charge, this time we’ll get it right.
There were a few brave souls there
Exhibitors at the only 4 conservative leaning booths such as this one reported facing aggression from their fellow union members.
Fortunately not all teacher are deranged libs
But thanks to the 5-4 ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME decision by the Supreme Court more then a few teachers are breathing a sigh of relief.
“The average teacher joins a union because they want job protection from the whim of administration going AWOL,” says yet another anonymous teacher from California, afraid of union retribution should his name be distributed. Unfortunately, this idea that unions should exist for the protection of jobs has fallen by the wayside in the age of #Resist and #AbolishIce.
Fortunately, things are beginning to look up for teachers who just want to do their job with the recent 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court on Janus v. AFSCME. This ruling affirms for the first time that public sector employees are not required to give their hard earned dollar to a labor union. For teachers like Paul or Christine, this means that freedom from the hyper political unions can now become a reality.
It’s no different here in Vermont, rather then the teach the three “R’s it’s how to be a S.W.J.
If I could say just two words to the youth of America…Venezuela, Look!!!!
It’s happening right before your eyes.
Is it dawning on “LEFT” that Bernie is an “OLD WHITE MALE”?
Is the “radical left” realizing that Bernie is an “OLD”WHITE MALE”.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) is facing rebuke from progressive activists and the far left of the Democratic Party for declining to call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Sanders’ failure to come out strongly against ICE — combined with poorly-timed statemSanders’ failure to come out strongly against ICE — combined with poorly-timed ents scolding the Red Hen Restaurant for refusing to serve Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this week — have some of the senator’s strongest supporters wondering if he is still the voice of the left, or if his recent rise into the nation’s top 1% of wage earners is tarnishing his image as a warrior for the working class.
Jeremey Scahill, a journalist who alongside Glen Greenwald founded The Intercept—a liberal-leaning online publication—in 2014, perhaps best summed up the growing sentiment on the left. The journalist took to social media shortly after the interview was broadcast to lambast the 76-year-old senator for having chosen to stand on the “wrong side of history.”
“Then Sanders is choosing to be on the wrong side of history on this issue,” Scahill tweeted. “ICE was created under Bush-Cheney and has done what they wanted it to do, particularly under Trump. It can’t be reformed.”
Sanders’ aversion to abolishing ICE triggered similar rebuke from other journalists and outlets on the left, with some even denouncing the self-described Democratic socialist as a “neoliberal,” a term generally reserved for those who favor free-market capitalism above all else, and as a “moderate.”
It wasn’t that long ago Bernie was a rock star.
“Working class hero” to neoliberal, how long before ” enemy of the people” ?
The revolution has a way of eating its own.