Re: Things I Learned Today
- From: David Nebenzahl <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:51:34 -0800
On 1/19/2009 12:25 AM Twibil spake thus:
While riding my bike back from a much-needed personal battery-
recharging jaunt to the Mojave desert today I learned two new things:
(A) Some BNSF container freights cross the downhill and flat sections
of the line at speeds of around 90 MPH, and (B) if you pace one such
train for a couple of miles and wave at the engineer he may reply with
an extended "Grade Crossing" diesel-honk.
I figured the honk had to be for me because we'd left the last actual
crossing five miles behind and were still ten miles from the next...
Speaking of having good insurance ...
--
In order to embark on a new course, the only one that will
solve the problem: negotiations and peace with the Palestinians,
the Lebanese, the Syrians. And: with Hamas and Hizbullah.
Because it's only with enemies that one makes peace.
- Uri Avnery, Israeli writer and peace activist with Gush Shalom.
(http://counterpunch.org/avnery08032006.html)
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