There Is Literally No Difference Between the Way IMAO Operates and the Way the California High-Speed Rail Operates

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California High Speed Rail to Nowhere Paid for Nightclub and Cigar Bar
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Dan Greenfield

The California High-Speed Rail to Nowhere started out with a $9.95 billion bond measure back in 2008 that was supposed to link up LA, San Francisco and the Central Coast by 2020, and is now up to… $231 billion.

Hopefully. At this rate, it’ll cost all the money in the world and still never exist.

So where is that money going? Here’s a hint.

Around the same time that the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an appearance with Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrating the progress of the ‘train-to-nowhere’, Democrats were moving forward a bill to ban the public from getting crucial information about the project whose budget is more than 5 times that of NASA.

But at least someone’s been having fun.

California’s High Speed Rail Authority paid nearly $600,000 in unallowable travel expenses to “questionable locations that appear unrelated to state business,” including trips to gyms, a nightclub, an escape room, a tiki bar and a cigar lounge over a two-year period, according to an investigation released Tuesday by the inspector general that oversees the agency.

The report found that the agency routinely reimbursed consultants for trips that were unauthorized or poorly justified. Some consultants flew first-class and were reimbursed without questioning, in violation of contracts and state policies. One consultant flew his private plane from Washington, D.C. to California and was reimbursed for a premium fare.

Nothing to see here. Just business as usual.

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Straight Line of the Day: What Did the Medieval Era Ever Do For Us?

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Well, for one thing, it gave me another word I can misspell.

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And it gave us a ton of reasons to create the nickname “the Dark Ages”:

The Council of Toulouse in 1229 prohibited laypeople in its jurisdiction from possessing Old and New Testament books and especially vernacular translations.
(The Bishop of Toulouse had the first name of “Folquet,” so there’s that.)

 

Bond Girlathon Wednesday : Results fro 10/7/2026 : New Matches for 10/14/2026

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Round 10 is almost in the books and with these matches we will rerank the top 16 Bond Girls. Will any positions change?

 

Results from 10/7/2026

 

 

(12) Olga Kurylenko No Preference Kell Tyler
161 1 12

 

 

Catherina Murino No Preference (13) Carey Lowell
98 1 55

 

New Matches for 10/14/2026

 

Match 1

 

(1) Barbara Bach (Anya Amasova) vs Carmen du Sautoy (Saida)

 

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
(1) Barbara Bach 9 – 0 – 0 1929 – 8 – 276

 

Anya Amasova

 

Actress: Barbara Bach
Nationality: American
Bond Movie: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Synopsis:

Anya Amasova, code name ‘Triple X’, was a KGB agent working under General Gogol. She had the same mission as Bond, to retrieve stolen microfilms for a submarine tracking system. After half co-operating and half getting in the way of each other, Bond and Amasova meet their bosses at the Egyptian HQ, who tell them that MI6 and the KGB are now co-operating, and the two should work together.

 

Barbara Bach

 

VS

 

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
Carmen du Sautoy 1 – 8 – 0 326 – 31 – 1415

 

Saide

 

Actress: Carmen du Sautoy
Nationality: English
Bond Movie: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

Synopsis:

Saida was a Lebanese belly dancer, and the ex-lover of agent 002, Bill Fairbanks. When Fairbanks is found dead, Bond visits Saida to find out what happened. Saida mentions that she found the bullet that killed Fairbanks and now uses it as a lucky charm belly button. Bond tries to casually steal the bullet, but after getting hit on the back by the club bouncer, he swallows it by mistake.

 

Carmen du Sautoy

 

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Match 2

 

(3) Eva Green (Vesper Lynd) vs Talisa Soto (Lupe Lamora)

 

 

 

 

 

Contestant Record Total scores
(3) Eva Green 9 – 0 – 0 1584 – 16 – 571

 

Vesper Lynd

 

Actress: Eva Green
Nationality: French
Bond Movie: Casino Royale (2006)

Synopsis:

Vesper Lynd worked for Her Majesty’s Treasury, and was assigned to manage the funds lent to Bond for his poker game with villain Le Chiffre. She got caught up with a vicious fight between Bond and Steven Obanno, that ended in Obanno’s bloody death. Bond found Vesper sitting shivering and fully dressed in the shower, trying to wash away the blood. He comforted her, and the two bonded. When Bond was poisoned by Le Chiffre, Vesper came to Bond’s aid and saved his life. Later in the film, the pair were captured, and Vesper spared Bond’s life in a series of events that led to the end of her own.

 

Eva Green

 

VS

 

 

Contestant Record Total Scores
Talisa Soto 3 – 6 – 0 745 – 29 – 1142

 

Lupe Lamora

 

Actress: Talisa Soto
Nationality: American
Bond Movie: Licence to Kill (1989)

Synopsis:

Lupe Lamora was the mistress of drug baron Franz Sanchez. Lupe frequently slept around, and Sanchez went to deal with one of her lovers in Florida, getting himself arrested by the DEA in the process. Bond met Lupe unintentionally when trying to kill someone aboard her boat. They met again at a casino, and Bond forced Lupe into taking him upstairs to meet Sanchez. Although Lupe was a love interest, Bond left her at the end of film to be with Pam Bouvier.

 

Talisa Soto

 

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