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New gaffe: Obama hails America's historic building of 'the Intercontinental Railroad'
LA Times ^
| 9/23/11
| Andrew Malcolm
Posted on 09/23/2011 6:01:20 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
I’d love to see how they laid railroad tracks across the Ocean bed. When do we get to see this marvel of engineering?
To: massgopguy
Who do you think sent the new sheriff to Rock Ridge?The Sheriff is near!
I liked the guy with the Palomino horse and the Gucci saddlebag a whole lot better.
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:04:23 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: Libloather
He meant the Intercontinental Hotel in Kenya.
http://www.intercontinental.com/intercontinental/en/gb/locations/nairobi
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:07:40 AM PDT
by
COUNTrecount
(Barry...above his poi grade.)
To: Libloather
Taggart Intercontinental?
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:09:15 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(So much stress was put on Bush's Fault that it finally let go, magnitude 6)
To: bagman
I think that you will find that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific had substantial backing from the Federal government.Correct.
Each railroad was given 6400 acres of land, which they could sell to settlers to help populate the route with customers, and each railroad was paid $48,000 per mile of track laid.
However, they had 14 years from the passage of the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 to complete the job, or they would forfeit ALL the land AND the money.
And in typical Government fashion, the two lines passed each other in Utah because no one was thinking ahead to establish a junction point.
Promontory Point, Utah was selected and the Golden Spike was driven on May 10, 1869. 7 years ahead of schedule.
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:11:46 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Obama - Wear The Fail!)
To: Libloather
Has anyone else read the transcript that follows the LA Times article? Barack Obama is completely delusional, and an outright liar. And, it is abundantly evident from the transcript and the crowd response, the “speech’ was delivered to a hand-picked friendly union group.
It’s truly sickening stuff to read. This is the POTUS???? What has happened to the USA? What has happened to the democrat party?
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:12:07 AM PDT
by
astounded
(Barack Obama is a clear and present danger to the USA)
To: Ezekiel
Who can name the country that built the Intercontinental Railroad?
"Me me me me ME yes I CAN!"
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:15:12 AM PDT
by
MonicaG
(God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
To: Vaquero
Its the train that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs!!
...and the objective was to avoid a black hole...yes?
To: the invisib1e hand; All
“so the LA times has switched flags, has it?”
Actually, it seems like they have. I’m totally amazed at the continuous stream of anti-0bama (actually simply truth-telling) articles that are coming out about 0bama from the L.A. Times on a daily basis. Right now, it’s the only major daily bird-cage-liner media outlet that is telling some truths about 0bama.
Not sure why. I suppose they figure they can have their cake and eat it too, namely, they can slam him all they want, thereby creating buzz for themselves, yet knowing all along 0bama’s going to win California with no sweat no matter what gets said or what happens.
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:23:35 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: sasquatch
...and the objective was to avoid a black hole...yes? I dunno...all I know is that
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:25:26 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Libloather
His handlers were probably thrilled that he didn’t say “Intercollegiate Railroad”
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:27:55 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
To: Libloather
Yes, the Intercontinental Railroad was a Teutonic Shift in history!
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:29:31 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: tet68
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:30:08 AM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: massgopguy
I think it was either Governor William J Lapetomine or Heddy Lamar.
No, that’s Hedley!!
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:30:27 AM PDT
by
bagman
To: Libloather
Mocking barry has lost some of its fun, now that even hardened leftist don’t even try to defend him.
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:31:56 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Fight for Liberty)
To: Ezekiel
LOL Almost snorted my coffee.
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:32:29 AM PDT
by
Reddy
(B.O. stinks)
To: N. Theknow
And in typical Government fashion, the two lines passed each other in Utah because no one was thinking ahead to establish a junction point. Remember the old wall poster from the 1970s? A Promontory Point type scene - but at the point where the rails joined, the southernmost rail from one side joined the northernmost rail from the other. I believe the caption was "Thank God It's Friday".
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:33:07 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: bagman
"No, thats Hedley!!"Yeah, wasn't he the feller who spoke purtier that a twenty-dollar whore?
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:33:28 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Madison, Wisconsin is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.", L. S. Dryfus)
To: bagman
I think that you will find that the Union Pacific and Central Pacific had substantial backing from the Federal government.Maybe to the extent that the government gave them the power of eminent domain/inverse condemnation so they could take the land they needed, but did it provide any funding?
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:34:46 AM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: bagman
I think it was either Governor William J Lapetomine or Heddy Lamar. And they went "intercontinental" with their evil plans. I guess that fellow returned with a shitload of dimes, after all.
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posted on
09/23/2011 7:35:58 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
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