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This country's failure to get its shit together to get high-speed rail going is, uh, disappointing. Nothing against wine trains. I hear they have wine buses in Washington where they serve the boxed stuff as you cruise out to Walla Walla -- true?

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No shit. China can make the trains run on time--why can't we?

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I like the perfect teardrop. A thing to behold.

(I like the others fine, too, but if we're picking favorites...)

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I'm pretty sure this day passed already.

TM

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Yes, maybe, but you don't want a high speed wine train. You want one that breaks down and your stuck. on the train. with wine. to infinity.

No, Seattle just extended its lite rail.

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I like more than a teardrop, but that like is not at the expense of acknowledging the beauty of the teardrop. which. i. do.

Re: This is totally awesome
 

Umm, actually, I meant Sebby instead of Sidd. It may be the first time you've been confused with him, but you both start with S and I have a cold.

And where's your assessment of the breasts, anyways? Your sense of priority is deeply disturbing.

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Re: This is totally awesome
 

they seem quite nice, small breasts.

Life According to Newt
 

John Stewart: Doesn't [military tribunals] build terrorists up, aren't they thugs, aren't they criminals?

Newt: "No."

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what proposals have been made on this? replaced the NE Amtrak corridor? something out West? it strikes me that replacing the NE Amtrak routes is pointless, and putting other routes elsewhere merely threatens the airlines' ability to survive.

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Gingrich, on The Daily Show, says Richard Reid was tried in an Article III court because he was an American citizen. No, he wasn't. Gingrich doesn't have someone on his staff who can check Wikipedia for him?

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Routes have been proposed elsewhere:

http://www.treehugger.com/obama-high...l-corridor.png

Upgrading the NE corridor is hardly pointless, if you make travel faster. And "threatening" the airlines on corridors where high-speed rail makes more sense is a great idea, just like threatening horse-and-buggies was cars was a good thing.

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have you riden any high speed rail? I've been on the Japanese bullets. They start out slow and ramp up. The NE is stop and go with the stops, it might get marginally quicker after spending a gazillion dollars.

the other areas ignore the basic problem that you are connecting cities that have no effective public transport. You've posted a link from texas to little rock. what you gonna do when you get to little rock and don't have a car?

I don't have a problem with improving rail travel, but it seems a poor investment compared with investing in hybrid/ecar or giving cities money to build subways etc.

ps the airlines aren't dinosaurs since they can cross water and get to many places faster. and their suppliers are my clients.

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Not that I necessarily disagree, but it doesn't have to be stop and go. It could easily be DC-NY-Boston. Or even DC-Philly-Boston.

But we already spent billions to shave 15 minutes off of DC to NY and a half hour off NY to Boston, although my recollection is that the Acela has never performed as it was originally advertised. Something about not tilting the way it was supposed to on the widely track north of NYC.

Again, not that I disagree, but they have taxis and rental cars, no? If I take the train to NYC, I don't typically take the subway to my final destination. But, of course, in NYC my destination is in the city, and in Little Rock it is just as likely to be well outside of downtown (which is why I don't disagree).

Not dinosaurs, but from the outside seem to have a lot in common with the car companies: go broke every time there is a downturn, mostly overloaded with debt, provide a product that no one is really happy with, and loaded down with high union labor costs. But at least they have Congress to protect them from foreign competition, so you got that going for you.

ETA: Also, to spend the money to do high speed between the NEC and Pittsburgh, and Chicago and Cleveland, but not between Pittsburgh and Cleveland seems wasteful.