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  1. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    I just sent an order to Insurrection yesterday with payment check for an Aero ANJ-4 jacket. Does anyone know roughly what the turn around sequence (sizing jacket sent, sizing jacket returned, receipt of the final jacket, etc.) will be on such an order?
  2. ChiTownScion

    Taking Amtrak

    Ah. They're cutting the service this year. I see. Too bad: seemed like a fun journey. Problem is, it seemed like they never claimed "common carrier" status, so they can end it without state hearings.
  3. ChiTownScion

    Taking Amtrak

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  4. ChiTownScion

    Taking Amtrak

    Is this website for the Maine Eastern Railroad outdated, Lizzie? http://www.maineeasternrailroad.com/
  5. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    My personal view is that any cop or firefighter that survives long enough to collect a pension and not allow "the job" to erode their decency or humanity has climbed their personal Everest. Some find their decency and their humanity on the job: some have never had it to begin with, nor ever...
  7. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    I really think that the vast majority of them do want to do the right thing, help others, and serve their communities. They have to deal with a bureaucracy that demands statistics to justify its own existence, a public generally clueless as to how their jobs function, and too often, corruption...
  8. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    I trust that you've seen Terry Zwigoff's 1995 film Crumb? The message that you get is that he grew up in a very dysfunctional family. Scary as it may seem, compared to his mother and his brothers Charles and Maxon, he's clearly the normal one. The other highlight of interest in that film is when...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Taking Amtrak

    And dang! You could have taken the train and rode the famous Horse Shoe Curve just west of Altoona and had a pleasant memory! :D But I do understand how even the most miserable travel experience can make you appreciate the good ones in the future even more. On an almost spur of the moment whim...
  10. ChiTownScion

    Taking Amtrak

    I went to college (early- mid 1970's) about 200 miles away and utilized Amtrak for weekends, Easter, Thanksgiving, etc. This was back when Amtrak had its "Heritage fleet," the castoff cars from the old intercity rail travel days. The cars were usually in decent mechanical shape, but the coaches...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Taking Amtrak

    The last long distance Amtrak trip that I took was a Chicago- Emeryville (SF BAY) round trip a few years ago with my 2 older sons. Absolutely loved it- but the train (Cal Zeph) ran late in both directions. We got the Family Bedroom, which takes up the entire car width on the lower level of the...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    It shouldn't be so, but it definitely helps to have friends who are cops. You wouldn't think that a public defender would have cop friends, but that wasn't how it played out. Besides guys that I grew up with, lodge brothers, friends of relatives and relatives of friends, I often find myself...
  14. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Now You're Logging, by Bus Griffiths. A graphic novel. He worked as a logger in British Columbia for years, and his illustrations are based upon his experiences.
  15. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    Another colleague and friend (who eventually ended up on the bench and was a superb judge by all assessments) defended John Wayne Gacy. I remember as Gacy's time was winding down, he accused his trial counsel of ineffective assistance in a petition for post conviction relief. My friend- rather...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    The man who hired me as an assistant public defender was quite a character: an old time whisky drinking trial lawyer, born in Belfast Northern Ireland of a Protestant mother and a Catholic father who put himself through night law school working on the railroad. His career case was defending...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    Katko v. Briney.... Dang! The cobwebs got shaken trying to recollect THAT one, Brother Harp! But, wasn't that the spring loaded shotgun in the empty farmhouse case? (Special note to Miss Lizzie: I know that you're mechanically inclined.. but please don't try this one at home. The bad guy who...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    What's interesting to me are some of the online comments that want to turn this into a Second Amendment issue. It's not. The invader was fleeing/ retreating and once that commences, the right under common law to use deadly force no longer exists, just as the right of a cop to use deadly force...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Miss Lizzie.. Isn't this in your area?

    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tired-of-thefts-maine-man-buys-gun-and-shoots-burglar-hours-later/ I'm wondering how the use of deadly force would be justified as a matter of law at a point in time where the intruder was fleeing and had abandoned his criminal activity (flight). The common law...
  21. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Three factors, actually, killed intercity trains in the US. In addition to jet travel, the building of the interstate highway system, and the elimination of government mail contracts for the railroads. That mail car often paid the bills for the passenger service, and when they were being...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I have this discussion with my wife every time that we go on vacation: she's of the, "get there fast so that we can enjoy ourselves more at the destination" school, while I am more of a "the journey is the destination" kind of a guy. I've been trying to finagle a trans- Atlantic crossing on the...
  23. ChiTownScion

    What missed opportunities do you regret?

    I had a shot for a direct commission as an Army JAG Corps officer after law school and turned it down. Like a damned fool, I wanted to "earn" my commission and go Marine: that didn't work out because the ol' BP was through the roof when I reported to Quantico. At 27 I was physically "too old"...

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