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In safety speak, I have a feeling that a train "derailment" is anything where there's even the slightest slip. There are certainly not 1,000 East Palestines every year.

Thank you for the information about the brakes. I didn't know they had determined that wasn't it.

And you're right that with all that money, we should be able to help the people of Ohio, but I'd say we also should have been able to make the rails safer.

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I am rather bitterly grateful for everything that exposes people's true natures. These past three years have done more to do that than a century of normal time.

Transiting from anger to sorrow--we have a lot of rails-to-trails work up here and it's an unhappy reminder of how much we lose when we lose the facilities supporting travel by train. Such a lovely mode of getting around and being able to see and enjoy so much while we do so.

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The government loves us citizens. Well, as long as we work for Raytheon or Pfizer.

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The women on The View jumped the rails years ago... one is crazier than the next and they all have hatred flowing in their veins. May their blood turn to sludge... yeah, that’s mean but they have done enough damage.

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Few seem to be willing to entertain the idea that the entirety of both the Rebub and Demo trips to East Palestine (and no where else, there are so many toxic spills now) is a huge arranged play to keep one or the other in power. If the Dems know they are out, their best option is to let the Repubs look good for a second; Cokes or Pepsi's, all the same in the end. Prove me wrong.

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Americans are all insane according to Einstein's definition.

They think voting for these psychopathic liars will 'fix' anything.

And they won't accept responsibility for allowing this charade to continue.

Waiting for Jesus to return is just their other way of not accepting responsibility for their choices in life that got us here.

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