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One day Willie took on JimRob with regard to publicly funded (heavily subsidized) rail and was told to stifle on the subject, but wouldn’t.

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Willie seemed to have had two "incarnations" here on FR. Several years ago, when anything negative, defeatist or catastrophic re conservatism was posted, there you'd find Willie (who was often the OP). During that time, I often called him "Joe Bftlspk" -- and posted this character sketch from Al Capp's Lil' Abner" comic strip:

"Willie Green" -- the Eternal Pessimist...

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Then he reappeared in his "Government Subsidized High Speed Rail Shill" guise...

I'll miss him -- if only because he was such a clearly-defined target for sarcasm and ridicule. So I'll "fly" this new tagline for a while in honor of Willie ("under a cloud") Green:

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Meant to ping y’all to #20...