Posted on 10/09/2022 2:39:26 PM PDT by grundle
You have a good point, I must admit. The one question I have is, would the giggletramp agree to leave? I am not so sure. Secondly, the Dems don’t get to pick the VP in your scenario. The Senate has to vote on the VP. If the Dems get “torched” in November, do you think the R Senate will rubber stamp the wineboy as VP?
“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.” Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.""The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF. The company pulled out in 2011.
SNCF was a French company, experts at building bullet trains, who came onboard California's project only to leave in frustration.
>> In that chapter from the fictional book, <<
Oh, I’m pretty sure the book exists. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Might be fiction, but it’s not fictional.
That China has the world’s largest high-speed rail network really isn’t that impressive when you think about it.
Come on, man....
This ‘disfunctional’ process is exactly what the democRATS want. Spend other people’s money on a variety of things. Every foot, yard, and eventually, mile of the train is challenged in Court by nonprofit entities funded by, yes, you, the taxpayer. Local, State and Federal grants go to hundreds of non-profits whose only mission is to sue, stall, and destroy. The reasons for these lawsuits vary, and almost all are left wing wacko ideas: global warming, global cooling, climate change, equity, racism, white privilege, did I mention equity. The reason the Bar Association gives millions to the democRATS is that the democRATS create so many rules, laws, regulations that no one can really follow, and provide a myriad of avenues for lawsuit after lawsuit.
AND, before one shovel disturbs one piece of dirt, MASSIVE environmental research must be done, reviewed, edited, redone, and then examined by.. yes.. another attorney from another nonprofit. Once all this ‘private’ action takes place, then the big government lawyers begin their ‘work.’ In the name of ‘protecting the FILL-IN-THE-BLANK, more and more analysis must be done. Towards the end of all this mandated insanity, a completely different nonprofit, once again funded with tax dollars, can easily sue, claiming another myriad of issues (Native American, Snail Darter, or an interruption of Nancy Pelousy’s ice cream supply).
We were born and raised in California. I remember when Ronald Reagan was our Governor, and took on the academic wackos. Today, Reagan would probably clone The Duke, John Wayne, send thousands of Wayne clones to slap the BLEEP out of these liberal creeps. While I have the optimism of Reagan, and we may see the national pendulum swing back to the good and the light, I believe in Kalifornia the lawyers and nonprofits will still be in Court after we are gone.
I had some time to waste so I went to antilogicalism.com.
The word “overread” has never crossed my mind until now. Blog author Joshua has clearly done too much reading. Seems in spite of that he’s completely non-selective, indiscriminate, mentally gaseous beyond anything I’ve encountered since Marcel Proust.
There is an entry explaining why he chose the word “antilogicalism.” It explains nothing in about 1200 words not counting the plentiful quotations.
Joshua, you should have called it omphaloscopy.com.
Quit reading and form some conclusions. About anything.
That is a problem in this senario. Maybe a Republican senator will commit suicide with three taps to the back of the head. Then this works.
Yes, Atlas Shrugged is a masterpiece. I’ve read it many times. Sometimes just for the pure clarity of it. Hard to believe English was a second language for Ayn Rand.
By the way, Congratulations on being here almost 25 years. Your anniversary coming up.
The modern concept of high-speed trains didn't exist in the early fifties. She wrote only about transportation.
Ping
“The aristocracy of ‘pull’”
Same here. John Galt’s speech took all of the 90’s to get through.
Unfortunately Rand had bad timing, Atlas Shrugged was a book written about a 30’s society that was published in 1955 when America was unquestionably ascendant.
It sure is . Don’t forget they built it within 12 years and they have some of the fastest trains in the world . The train stations are like looking at the 22nd century . California began their high speed rail 13 years ago and one line isn’t finished yet !!!
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This was not a project to benefit the people of California. It benefits politicians, their families, their friends, and the unions. It is a never ending cash cow. That is all anyone needs to know about it.
LOL. Comparing it to California isn’t a high bar. All of the corruption of fascism and none of the competence.
I was comparing China to America via California . China is numero uno in the world and the biggest exporter of train technology . Facts are facts .
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