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If you're not in the red you're in the black? I wasn't a business major so to me that would be the definition of "profits". --Ray.

Wow! I haven't been here in a VERY long time. Much to my surprise, someone really liked WAG2. Thanks for playing my map, MaglevForever! :) --Ray.

LOL! He said that 47% of us think we're entitled to government programs. Saying things like that is a great way to loose an election. Neil Cavuto described it as calling half the country moochers when interviewing Romney afterward. The unemployment rate isn't anything to worry about as far as an election goes. That's the responsibility of the people to fix. They need to move to where the work is. I did. I have family members who think jobs should come to them. I say they should be hungry. LOL! Every candidate tries to take the credit for my hard work. Things are much better for me than four years ago but neither candidate had anything to do with it. That was all me. Wasn't Romney asking this question during the primary too? You should vote for Gary Johnson if that's who you think should be President. He won't have any chance to be elected if you don't vote for him. One of my friends has already decided that he's doing it as a protest vote. If you don't like Romney; don't vote for him. Obama and Romney aren't different enough from each other so I see no good reason to change. As for moving, you don't really mean that. I survived Bush. You will survive either one when it happens. I know I will. In fact I will thrive. --Ray.

Romney has screwed himself with the 47% comment. That was his "Dukakis on the tank" moment. He's only released a couple of years of tax returns. The norm is ten years. What's he hiding? This one is over. Besides, he needs to carry Ohio or carry Florida and a bunch of smaller states both of which are an uphill climb. I'm not very impressed with him anyway. He hasn't shown me that he would be any different than Obama. Both are big government and big business politicians. Two sides of the same coin IMO. --Ray. (Your local corrupt progressive idiot and proud of it. LOL!)

Late to the game here so to speak. :) I'm not a developer but I am in QA. If this gets off the ground, I could help there. --Ray.

I know that the Knox, Kane, and Kinzua had one but that RR is gone now.

Tried this map out and I like it very much. I'm very interested in where you go with it. --Ray.

Jeff, Have you considered making an exe that will mod RT2 once you find the location of all the data? BTW, if you want to look at the Linux gold version I can send you the exe file. --Ray.

I took a very long time away from RT2. :) Today was the first time I've played it in about 2 or 3 years or so; and I found myself editing Williamsport Lumber Baron which was never truly a 'finished' map. When I made it, I really just wanted to run trains on that geography. Today I've updated it to v2.0. Enjoy! --Ray. WLB_20.zip

I haven't been around for awhile and just got back into playing RT2. For fun I thought I would post current game that I am playing. Yes, it is a PA 1880 map. Monty Haul everyone! :) Note: No this isn't a new map. Just a game map that I am playing...something fun thing to look at. :) --Ray.

I haven't been around for awhile and just got back into playing RT2. For fun I thought I would post current game that I am playing. Yes, it is a PA 1880 map. Monty Haul everyone! :) Note: No this isn't a new map. Just a game map that I am playing...something fun thing to look at. :) --Ray. Central_Railroad.zip

That's sad. Yes, I did attend LHUP and Nelson Delavan was my advisor. He was the toughest history prof on campus but that was back when you had to write an essay or two inside 45 minutes in a bluebook. No multiple choice for this guy. It wasn't good enough for his students! :) BTW, I'm waiting for you to tell me why you like Reagan. --Ray.

As one of my college history professors would say, "explain, compare and contrast." I used to remember him as a good president but my opinion of him has changed over the years. Let's ask this question instead, "What is Ronald Reagan's legacy and is it relevant in today's world? Please explain, compare and contrast. Be sure to support your argument." Thank you Nelson Delavan for making me a critical thinker! --Ray.

There's an old internet rule. If you bring up the Nazis in your post, you've automatically lost the argument. Sorry Gwizz, This is just fear mongering. Don't let them do this to you. Don't believe everything you read from any media outlet with a political agenda. Besides, it was probably some out-of-context semi-quote where Obama said, "We should encourage our young men and women to join the Peace Corpse" which was then twisted into that. --Ray.

It's a "republican myth" because they cut education, then complain about education being so bad. A self-fulfilling prophecy. They should invest in education, rather than punish failing schools with bad legislation like "No Child Left Behind" which did more hurt to bad schools than it ever did to help them. Good schools still did well and bad schools still did poorly only the bad schools were punished rather than fixed. Granted both my friend and my mother work(ed) in rather good schools. My mother is now retired and only rarely had to fail a child (sign of a great teacher!) My friend is required to have parent-teacher meetings. The idea is to stop children from failing the whole grade but sometimes it still happens. --Ray.

Untrue. I'm a son of a retired 1st grade school teacher and one of my friends is a new school teacher (secondary level mathematics) in a mid-sized city. This doesn't happen. Students receive both good and bad grades as they earn them. It's just another republican myth so don't believe it. Besides, if everyone "earned" a C, the dropouts would be staying in school just to get a free lunch. --Ray.

I understood it. We're a socialist nation in a strange way and have been since the Great Depression. It's just a matter of which pigs get the most corn from which version of big government, because the fences had been built around us long ago. --Ray.

I would suggest that you stop reading your email. That spam is going to rot your mind. :) As for the pigs, I agree. The problem with the Republican Party are the pigs. Fat pigs eating corn! You see, it was my corn and someone else's pigs ate it (Read: The bailout of Wall St. Where Wall St. are the pigs.). --Ray.

Anything would do and make me tickled pinko. Sorry, the way I've been defending Democrats, I just couldn't resist. :) --Ray.

Now that's what I call comin' through for me! :) Thanks! :) Now to defend the woman... I think she had been interviewed just after hearing an inspirational speech by Obama. He really gave her hope to look to the future rather than despair over a hard life yet to come. Let's face it. I would probably sound just as stupid after hearing any political speech too. Especially if I were that moved by it. Any normal American would be that way. --Ray.

Rob, help me out. The first or second set? As for the third set and the creation of YA3P (yet another 3rd party) I think he and all of Ron Paul's supporters should go to the Libertarians and give us a real conservative party. The Libertarian Party could be a contender if they didn't come across as completely insane. :) --Ray.

Gwizz, Do you have a url or citation to this quote? I didn't find one with a quick google search. You may want to be very careful with quotes from Reagan. I have noticed that a great many things have been attributed to him since his death that he didn't really say by those who wish to build a "cult of personality" or maybe a "aura of myth" around the man. I'm not certain how to describe these people who still adore this man (think of Sean Hannity here). My Tube? It's probably from www.youtube.com which is a flash video site but I doubt we'd be able to find this one. Youtube has become the 'great political equalizer' since 2006. It allowed millions of constituents to watch their representatives makes fools of themselves and decide whether or not to re-elect such a person. I'm thinking of George Allen's poor choice of words when Jim Webb ran against him for the US Senate seat in Virginia. --Ray.

An article by a Republican about what is wrong with the Republican Party and a call to form a new (perhaps conservative?) party. With the exception of Reagan ending the cold war which is untrue and ERA passing, I agree with the author. http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=35856 --Ray.

The republicans wanted it too and the banking industry lobbied for it. This isn't a democratic failure. I watched a big banker who's name I have forgotten on CSPAN within the last two weeks who spoke at a convention recently (inside the last month or so as he talked about the recent collapse) about his own history since the late 1970s for push for government deregulation of banking. That's just it. If there was one, they either didn't get it or it didn't help anything. The costs of running the farm (seed and fertilizer, IIRC) kept going up and my mother's small teacher's salary (i think it was in the low $30s at the time) didn't cover the difference so the farm was shutdown. The 1980s was the beginning of bad times for small farmers in Pennsylvania. I remember many farms going up on the auction block back then.

Unfortunately, didn't help my parents (school teacher and small time farmer/retired Air Force Sgt). My father quit farming in the 80s because of the bad economy. That's just it. IIRC, it wasn't illegal (...but it was and still is immoral). If there had been proper regulation, it wouldn't have happened to begin with. The government went too far in deregulating trucking. You hit it on the head! It was because of something the government under Reagan didn't do. It didn't regulate the S&Ls. They were able to do these extravagant things because there wasn't oversight. My overall point is that the economy performs poorly when you start to use laissez-faire economics. The closer to laissez-faire, the worse off the country is as a whole for the people. The tiny minority of really wealth people do really well but not everyone else. --Ray.