Posted on 10/06/2011 5:56:24 PM PDT by george76
Plans to build a high speed railway line from London to Birmingham could be threatened by a small colony of bats, the Government’s environmental advisers have warned...
the bats could be a “show-stopper” ...
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The inmates are still running the asylum.
LOL. This is great. enviro-bling Rats v. mass transit rats.
July 10, 2008
A Definition of Moonbattery
While trying to make sense of Britain’s self-induced tailspin, The Brussels Journal shines some light on the motivation of moonbats:
Why is it we constantly see White British liberals attacking not only the British and their culture, but everyone and everything, in the name of anti-racism? Most suggest that they are driven by self-loathing, and this, no doubt, counts for much. They hate British culture, and they are suspicious of the British people — and these more than anything. But, the truth of the matter is that they hate culture, and they are suspicious of humanity itself. They hate high ideals: religion; nation; the flag; virtue; virtus; character; fortitude; justice; honor; freedom of expression; freedom of thought; freedom of conscience. And they are suspicious of anyone who would cultivate himself through them.
In short, moonbattery is the grotesquely pathological condition of hating everything that deserves respect. How else to explain modern liberalism?
This is EXACTLY what will happen in California and their high-speed rail.
The Enviro-nazis and the Watermelons will fight the state for every yard of rail. The end result will make the Massachusetts Big Dig look like a weekend Girl Scout fundraiser.
Can we import a few of those bats and “discover” them along the path of the American high speed rail boondoggle? It would be nice for knee-jerk environmentalism to do something good for once, stopping that massive but useless spending spree.
Hmmmm, bats stopping high speed rail projects? Can we import them?
Don't need them. The government always gets in its own way when it comes to that. The private railroads tried to upgrade their speeds in the 1950s and 1960s, and what did the government do?—they regulated away the private companies' ability to compete by making it too expensive to run trains faster than 80 mph (this is why Amtrak only runs at 125 mph in one corridor in the country to this day).
Can we import a few of those bats and “discover” them along the path of the American high speed rail boondoggle?
Quick, someone bring some of those bats to the corridor of the proposed Chicago-Detroit train boondoggle.
I envision the old stay by ... two wheeled wooden carts pulled by unionized peasants. I guess a peasant could suck in a rare bat on occasion, but that could be prevented by making them wear masks.
I envision the old standby ...
Wow, how the hell big *is* this bat?!?
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