So conservatives are stuck in the past, but the big progressive solution to the economy right now is to build trains?
Washington would be so much better if more congressmen were quick to resign.
I like the anti-drug slogan “Meth: Not Even Once” much better than their previous “Meth: Once or Twice, and That’s It”.
Well, Frank, those famous companies like the Pennsy, the New York Central, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Rock Island Line, they’re all still around and kicking today because passenger railroads are the most profitable business I can think of.
Wait a minute…
Any thoughts on how long we have until we start hearing metaphors about a train crashed in a ditch that obama is trying (and failing) to fix?
Also, “Meth: Not Even Once” is much better than another slogan I’ve seen: “Meth. Not for me.” Damned moral relativists, implying that meth is ok for some people!
Since congresscritters are basically big lemmings who’ve learned to walk on 2 legs (sorta), we just need to find them a cliff to run over.
I’ve always liked Dave Barry’s amendment to the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law.”
Maybe Obama’s next catchy slogan will be “I think we can, I think we can…”
Actually, the whole damn government is dysfunctional and should be laid off. The only thing that sorta works is the military – and it’s the only thing worth paying taxes for, imo.
Hmmmm, these thoughts seem like they are coming from a different persona. Did FrankJ sell his online personality to someone else? Like Rove Karl maybe? Hmmm maybe these thoughts aren’t so random, maybe they are designed to get into our heads and probe our thoughts! I think I had better put on my foil hat just to be sure. Now where is kuchinitch so I can get it back.
Back in the 19th century, when most railroads were built, they tended to go from point A where there was stuff…to point B where stuff could go if only there was a way to get there. So where are these new
high-speedsomewhat faster than a car-trains going to go to that doesn’t already have many ways to get to?“Washington would be so much better if more congressmen were quick to resign.”
Washington would be better as a giant cattle corral. We run hordes of cattle through the streets every day, paralyzing the city and keeping the Washingtonians from going to work. Then while they’re busy dodging the cowpiles all over the place, we cut it loose with giant lasers and just let it drift away in the Gulf Stream.
This is the “put more air in your tires” moment of the Obama presidency.
I haven’t heard anyone point out why, even with $53 billion, this idea cannot work. All the important routes in the US run through metro areas. High speed rail requires straight rail, which is why the Acela isn’t truly high speed. Now, if Obama were going to build a shopping mall and business center (see Kelo v. City of New London) the government could use eminent domain to raise houses along of right of way, but that won’t work for a choo-choo.
Liberals have always been stuck in the past, too, but with more of an emphasis on having our quality of life revert to stone-age levels.
“So conservatives are stuck in the past, but the big progressive solution to the economy right now is to build trains?”
No progressives are always looking forward…which is why they keep trying to revive disco and still wear the same clothes they wore at Woodstock.
Whats Woodstock?
Woodstock is a yellow bird, a quiet village in VA’s Shenandoah Valley, and a term for a great agricultural disaster in central New York.
For fans of such things, the PJ Tatler has linked to a new online comic called Ratfist which is pretty cool so far. It’s done by Doug TenNapel who has done graphic novels and created Earthworm Jim. The Tatler is not a bad Corner style place to keep tabs on breaking stories and other oddities, though not who the heck Earthworm Jim is.
Woodstock was a big outdoor concert in New York at the “height” of the hippie era. It featured all the great bands then in rock n’ roll but it was a financial disaster thanks to hordes of unwashed (is there any other kind?) hippies busting down the fence and refusing to pay. I understand the hippies could be smelled for several states and it took years for the hippie stench to dissipate in the area. The place was once a farm, after Woodstock it looked like a post-atomic hellhole.
That’s why catering to hippies is such a bad idea. Refuse them service and have them escorted from the premises, your place of business will be cleaner, your paying customers will appreciate it and you’ll actually make money.
What is it with socialists and railroads?
It is like they read atlas shrugged as a how to for old old soviet ideas on how to collapse a countrt!
Maybe we should get Joe Biden a striped engineer’s cap and tell him he’s in charge of Obama’s caboose?
Or, we could put a train in the White House like they had in Silver Spoons. Every house should have a Silver Spoons train… and remote-control door.
Here’s another fine meth you’ve gotten me into!…..Oliver Hardy
Hey, can we get lots of chinks and wetbacks to build the rails for the high-speed train? Then we would like drive them until they drop dead and we would simply unlock their chain, toss them in the ditch (they make great fill material) and hook up another! I’d ride a horse and carry a gun and be foreman guy! That would be cool!
Very Cool…My comment is awaiting moderation! I did it again! Bad ussjmmycarter!
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